The Syrian team of TDA-HPI in cooperating with Arc-k Project and ARTIVE wins "Our World Heritage" competition prize, the projects aim to build capacity for local Syrians to preserve heritage through digital documentation and combat illicit trade. While it was still accessible, several sections of...

Meet the historians, archaeologists, and Syrian civilians risking their lives for a piece of world heritage in Palmyra. Nicknamed the “Monuments Men” for their similarity to soldiers and civilians during World War II who hid precious artworks from the invading Nazi forces in Europe, Al-...

How Daesh Turns Illicit Digs Into Dollars Katie A. Paul On May 16, 2015, US Special Forces raided the compound of Abu Sayyaf, a leader of Daesh (commonly known as ISIS), uncovering a stockpile of documents illustrating the violent extremist network’s exploitation of illicit antiqui...

The world has already witnessed the barbarity with which ISIS treats precious monuments, but now, a smuggler is showing how they are selling the artifacts to fund their terror.  http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/smuggler-explains-how-isis-turns-ancient-artifacts-into-mass-profit-66...

Berlin, 4 June—Some 230 Syrian and international experts joined forces in a two-day meeting to assess damage to cultural heritage sites in Syria, develop methodologies and define priority emergency safeguarding measures for the country’s heritage. The expert meeting, held in Berlin f...

The war in Syria has displaced more than half the population, and hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed. The country’s rich cultural heritage is another victim of the conflict. Syria’s archaeological sites include the ruins of our earliest civilizations and some of the most...