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Middle East: UN nations agree to action to save Iraqi cultural sites
UN member-states on Thursday declared that the destruction by jihadists of Iraqi cultural sites may amount to war crimes and agreed to take steps to curb the trade of stolen ancient artifacts.An image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Homs on May 28, 2015 allegedly shows a flag of the Islamic State in the ancient cit…
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Israel: Israeli Burning Man festival torches ancient remains
The Israeli Antiquities Authority says revelers at a Burning Man festival famous for its pyrotechnic spectacles have accidentally torched some remnants of prehistoric man.In this Saturday, June 7, 2014 file photo, a man looks at a wooden sculpture that was set on fire during Israel's first Midburn Festival, modeled after the popul…
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East Asia: Chinese authorities bust intricate ring of tomb raiders
Police have caught 175 grave robbers and recovered 1,168 cultural relics worth more than 500 million yuan (US$80.6 million) in the nation’s biggest tomb raiding case since 1949, the Ministry of Public Security said.Policemen show detectors the tomb robbers have used [Credit: Xinhuanet]The robbers worked in 10 separate groups and f…
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Near East: ISIS spares Palmyra’s stunning ruins - for now
Archaeologists around the world feared for the spectacular ruins in Palmyra, Syria, after Islamic State militants took over the city and brutalized its population last week. The group had already looted and bulldozed another World Heritage Site, the city of Hatra in northern Iraq. However, after a preliminary examination of the la…
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