The threat to world heritage in Iraq: links to related websites

In the news | Ancient Iraq | Islamic Iraq | Protecting Iraq's endangered cultural heritage

In the news

Iraq News Digest on H-Museum carries many stories on the fate of Iraq's cultural heritage during the war.

• Fears for treasures of civilisation in the New Zealand Herald, 13 April 2003
• There¹s a conflict between collectors and archaeologists over the best way to protect Iraq¹s cultural heritage, audio report on Marketplace, 11 April 2003.
• Vulnerable Moment: Archaeologists Say Iraq's Treasures Are Most Vulnerable Now, on ABC News, 10 April 2003
• US lobby could threaten Iraqi heritage, in the Guardian, 10 April 2003
• Treasures at risk: The war in Iraq endangers some of Western civilization's oldest artifacts, in the Baltimore Sun, 10 April 2003.
• War could wipe out ancient history, Inter Press Service News Agency, 8 April 2003
• US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiquities, in the Sunday Herald, 6 April 2003
• Army Describes Steps to Protect Iraq's Cultural Heritage, Press briefing from Coalition Press Information Center, Kuwait, 5April 2003
• Archaeological treasures could become casualties in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 April 2003
• The end of civilisation in the Guardian, 2 April 2003
• Call to protect Iraqi heritage on BBC News, 2 April 2003
• Scientists fear history will be destroyed, on Canada.com, 2 April 2003
• Protecting Iraq's ancient treasures in the San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 2003
• History in harm's way, in the Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 2003
• Antiquities experts guarding treasures, in the Independent, 27 March 2003
• Blown away, from the Guardian, 25 March 2003
• Babylonian booty, from Newsweek on MSNBC, 24 March 2003 issue
• In the firing line, from the Church Times, 14 March 2003
• Iraq's threatened heritage, on WBUR, 12 March 2003
• In the line of fire, on ABC News, 10 March 2003
• War risk to Iraqi treasures, on the BBC, 6 March 2003
• Iraq War Could Put Ancient Treasures at Risk, from the Washington Post, 2 March 2003
• Experts fear for Iraq's archaeological treasure, on CNN, 1 March 2003
• Protecting ancient history in Iraq, on NPR, 20 February 2003

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Ancient Iraq

• ABZU: guide to Internet resources on the Ancient Near East, at the University of Chicago
• John Sanders' Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia at the University of Chicago
• Mesopotamia at the British Museum

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Islamic Iraq

• Iraq (Mesopotamia) 500-1000 AD at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Iraq 1000-1400 AD at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Virtual Baghdad at Northern Virginia Community College, with many further links

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Protecting Iraq's endangered cultural heritage

• British School of Archaeology in Iraq
• Archaeological Institute of America: AIA Urges Protection of Iraq's Archaeological Heritage, with further links to related websites
• Culture Without Context, the Newsletter of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre, Cambridge. Volume 1 (1997): Iraq since the Gulf War
• Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk on H-Museum, with links to many other sites
• 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNESCO: Iraq -- heritage in danger

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Created on 11 March 2003 for JNP by ER, with contributions from John Russell. Last updated on 12 April 2003. © JNP and ER. For further information please contact Professor Nicholas Postgate jnp10@cam.ac.uk or Dr Eleanor Robson eleanor.robson@all-souls.ox.ac.uk.