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Archaeology Inwards Danger


The Temple of Baal, earlier & afterwards devastation past times ISIS

In 2015 ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baal inward the ancient urban heart of Palmyra inward Syria. This pointless devastation of a World Heritage site briefly managed to plow the world's attending towards the danger faced past times archaeological sites some the world, especially inward North Africa too the Middle East.

Endangered Archaeology inward the Middle East & North Africa (EAMENA) is a database of over 20,000 archaeological sites nether threat. The database is a articulation projection past times Oxford, Leicester too Durham Universities. The spatial database itself was created using Arches, an open-source geospatially-enabled software platform for cultural heritage inventory.

Using the EAMENA interactive map yous tin search the database for endangered archaeological sites past times location. EAMENA likewise includes a listing of pop searches which provides access to themed searches of the database, such equally the 'destroyed sites' search which returns 3,314 sites that EAMENA judges to accept already been completely destroyed.