The Temple of Baal, earlier & subsequently devastation past times ISIS
In 2015 ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baal inwards the ancient metropolis of Palmyra inwards Syria. This pointless devastation of a World Heritage site briefly managed to plough the world's attending towards the danger faced past times archaeological sites unopen to the world, specially inwards North Africa as well as the Middle East.
Endangered Archaeology inwards the Middle East & North Africa (EAMENA) is a database of over 20,000 archaeological sites nether threat. The database is a articulation projection past times Oxford, Leicester as well as Durham Universities. The spatial database itself was created using Arches, an open-source geospatially-enabled software platform for cultural heritage inventory.
Using the EAMENA interactive map y'all tin search the database for endangered archaeological sites past times location. EAMENA likewise includes a listing of pop searches which provides access to themed searches of the database, such every 2nd the 'destroyed sites' search which returns 3,314 sites that EAMENA judges to bring already been completely destroyed.
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