Palmyra

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  8-27-18
  

  Nearly Destroyed by ISIS, the Ancient City of Palmyra Will Reopen in 2019 After Extensive Renovations

  ISIS occupied the city on two separate occasions between 2015 and 2017, destroying many of its historic treasures.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3-1-17
  

  Report: Syrian government forces enter Palmyra, drive back Islamic State

  Islamic State has captured Palmyra, whose ancient ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, twice during Syria's six-year conflict.

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• SOURCE: AP
  1-20-17
  

  IS in Syria destroys part of Roman theater in Palmyra

  Islamic State militants have destroyed parts of the second-century Roman amphitheater and an iconic monument known as the Tetrapylon in Syria's historic town of Palmyra, the government and experts said Friday.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-31-16
  

  Damaged by War, Syria’s Cultural Sites Rise Anew in France

  More than 40,000 images taken from Palmyra are part of a Louvre-curated 3-D exhibition highlighting the threats of war against global heritage.

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• SOURCE: ARCAblog
  7-7-16
  

  ISIS Releases Video showing its destruction of the Palmyra Museum's Artifacts

  The 57 second video shows militants lifting funerary reliefs from shelving and dropping them forcefully onto the floor. Other historic artifacts are subjected to repeated blows with sledgehammers, filmed for cinematic effect.

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• SOURCE: Syria Direct
  4-26-16
  

  Antiquities expert on Palmyra visit: 'Syria can’t possibly restore the destroyed artifacts'

  “Specialists are still working to estimate the exact scale of the damage, but it’s around 30 percent.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-16-16
  

  Ordinary Syrians are risking their lives to protect their cultural heritage

  Ordinary Syrian people are going to extraordinary lengths, risking everything to protect their heritage, despite the horror that has engulfed their country.

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• SOURCE: AP
  4-16-16
  

  Grim New Details of IS Destruction in Syria's Palmyra Museum

  The museum was trashed and some of its best-known artifacts and statues were smashed by the militants, who cut off the heads and hands of statues and demolished others before being driven out last month.

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• SOURCE: Art Crime Research
  4-13-16
  

  Syria says restoring Palmyra to the way it was is its goal

  It rejects the proposal to rebuild the city utilizing 3D technologies.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3-31-16
  

  Should we 3D print a new Palmyra?

  by Emma Cunliffe

  Many argue that 3D printing fails to capture the authenticity of the original structures, amounting to little more than the Disneyfication of heritage.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  3-31-16
  

  First US network reporter has made it into Palmyra

  After 10 months under ISIS' control, who would have believed Palmyra could look so good. But up close, there are monumental gaps.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-28-16
  

  If All Else Fails, 3D Models and Robots Might Rebuild Palmyra

  Cultural organizations have been working to create precise 3D digital models of the threatened heritage monuments in Palmyra, Syria, in case the originals are damaged beyond repair.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  3-27-16
  

  ISIS driven out of Palmyra by Assad troops

  Some of the most important heritage sites seem ok.

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• Syria: Russia Targets Daesh in Palmyra despite Drawdown

  With regime troops and their allies now within striking distance of the city itself, the Russians are softening up the minions of the phony caliphate from the air.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-5-15
  

  ISIS Destroys Triumphal Arches in Palmyra, Syria

  Another landmark structure in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra has been deliberately destroyed by Islamic State militants. The building involved this time was a set of triumphal arches, erected in the second century.

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• SOURCE: judithweingarten
  9-2-15
  

  This is one reason why Palmyra matters

  As a new museum exhibit in Denmark shows, it was the home of world class art.

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• SOURCE: The Times
  9-25-15
  

  Assad drops barrel bombs on Palmyra

  Almost a third of the walls of the 13th-century Mamluk citadel, a Unesco world heritage site, had been badly damaged in the latest bombardment.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  9-16-15
  

  The Fight to Save Syria's Antiquities From the Hands of ISIS

  Archaeologists are working quietly and methodically to catalogue, photograph and pack artifacts that are thousands of years old into wooden crates to be stored in top secret storage facilities in Damascus and elsewhere.

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• SOURCE: Cogent OA
  9-14-15
  

  Do millionaires order the theft of priceless art like in the movies?

  A new study indicates it actually happens, especially involving art from Cambodia, Argentina and Syria.

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• SOURCE: Architects Journal
  9-11-15
  

  War over the destruction of ancient ruins is madness

  by Rory Olcayto

  However much we revile the events at Palmyra, it is not worth going to war over ancient ruins, says Rory Olcayto