On 12 Nov 2015 at 11 pm Russian warplanes carried out an airstrike on the archaeological site of Ebla. The missiles struck the east side of the acropolis causing some damage and left a hole in the acropolis slope.
The Day After Heritage Protection Initiative (TDA-HPI) site monitors team in conjunction with the Cultural Heritage Preservation Center (from Ma’arra) conducted an onsite assessment of the damage and documented it (see photos below).
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Located southeast of the road connecting Ain Larose and...
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The Syrian Heritage Center received information that there is a Byzantine-era mosaic flor in Al-Bara historical site, located 33 km southwest of Idlib in Jabal Al-Zawiyah, 5 k...
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