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Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa, (EAMENA) an archaeological preservation project, will today launch public access to its online database of nearly 20,000 archaeological sites at severe risk due to conflict and other agents of destruction in the Middle East and North Africa.

The announcement will be made during the first ever Public Archaeology Twitter Conference(#PATC) today. The conference will also have input from over 30 other leading archaeological academic institutions and projects. It is hoped that the database will drive awareness of the scale of the problem and help governments, NGOs, and other regional stakeholders preserve the heritage of the people of the Middle East and the wider world.

Today, May 1st, 2017 marks the public launch of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project. 

EAMENA’s primary aim is to rapidly record and evaluate the status of the archaeological landscape of the MENA region in order to create an accessible body of data which can be used by national and international heritage professionals to target those sites most in danger and better plan and implement the preservation and protection of this heritage.

MONUMENTALI STRUTTURE PREISTORICHE IDENTIFICATE NEL DESERTO ARABICO

Gli archeologi della School of Archaeology dell’Università di Oxford hanno utilizzato le immagini satellitari per identificare e mappare oltre 350 monumentali strutture di caccia conosciute come “aquiloni del deserto” nell’Arabia Saudita settentrionale e nell’Iraq meridionale, la maggior parte delle quali non era mai stata documentata in questa zona. Guidato da Michael Fradley, un team di…