“Between these 3 sources, we were able to geo-locate a significant portion of the monuments,” Smith noted. It’s a worrying and deeply devastating prospect for our human cultural heritage,” Smith concluded. The structure of UNESCO is set up so that countries, as member states, gain international support for preservation of cultural heritage that they nominate within their own country. The current uptick in the conflict has increased the anxiety about at-risk heritage sites. “We have an extraordinarily large database of heritage sites.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2022 00:14 UTC