Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2026

Gaza’s archaeological heritage was destroyed in Israel’s genocide. These volunteers are trying to salvage it from the rubble: Israeli forces systematically and deliberately targeted many of Gaza’s archaeological sites, including ancient churches. Before the war, Gaza was home to archaeological sites and artifacts from periods spanning more than 5,000 years of continuous human civilization. Some looted artifacts have quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition

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contact@ifamericansknew.org   August 31, 2026   Archaeology destroyed ,   destruction in gaza ,   israeli aparthe...
Friday, October 17, 2025

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present- William Dalrymple in The Guardian

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The bombed-out Great Mosque of Gaza, once a crusader church, in January 2024. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images William Dalrymple Fri 17 Oct 202...
Friday, September 26, 2025

‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals- Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity

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  "The settler group Elad, which established the City of David archaeological site on expropriated Palestinian land in the Silwan dis...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Destruction and Appropriation of Palestinian Heritage .... Palestine & UNESCO Protecting heritage and reasserting sovereignty : The first installment of a two-part policy brief from Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.

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The Palestinian flag is raised alongside the UNESCO flag for the first time, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in Dec. 2011. (Haz...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Anger That a Herod Show Uses West Bank Objects

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The exhibition “Herod the Great: The King’s Final Journey” includes a reconstruction of his tomb, with his sarcophagus, center. Jim Hollan...

Museum exhibit becomes front in Israeli-Palestinian struggle

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Uriel Sinai/Getty Images - A museum worker does preparatory work before the opening of the "Herod the Great" exhibit...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Rising From Ruins: Even as Israel neglects a major archaeological site in the West Bank, it is preventing the Palestinian Authority from tending to it.

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"The Oslo Accords list Sebastia among the archeological sites of importance to Israel , yet Israel is not taking care of the place, ar...

'Herod the Great' show causes row over artifacts

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A general view of Herodion, near Bethlehem.(MaanImages/file) 13/02/2013 [AS ALWAYS ...

"Herod the Great" show in Israel angers Palestinians

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A man walks near sarcophagi during a media preview of an exhibition titled "Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey" at th...

Israel unveils Herod's archaeological treasures: Herod's mausoleum headlines Israel's most ambitious archaeological show but Palestinians say treasures should stay where they were found

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A stone sculpture of the Roman emperor Augustus, who ruled at the time of Herod the Great – part of the Israel Museum exhibition. Photog...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

This Week in Palestine: Archaeology

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The State of Archaeology   Message from the Editor I would like to start by saluting Palestinian people everywhere for the resilience...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Countering exploitation and oppression: Resolutions from World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress on Structural Violence, Ramallah, Palestine

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"We call on all people, archaeologists and non-archaeologists alike, to use the power of the past in support of equality, justice, a...