Medieval History
Emma Cunliffe sits in a tiny graduate student?s office on the medieval campus of the University of Durham. But her mind is thousands of miles east, in Syria. Every day she goes online, sometimes for a few hours, to monitor the Facebook feeds of local Syrian groups for word about damaged sites.
She?ll scroll past horrific photos of dead children till she comes across mention of a new archaeological site that was shelled or plundered. She says it?s incredible just how much you can find out from these posts.
?It?s a new world online now,? she says. ?The prevalence of social networking sites like Facebook, ease of access to YouTube, and the way that most people?s mobile phones can take video, means that, all those people who are desperate to share information have a real easy way to upload it and make it accessible.?
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Medieval History
Why One Researcher is Documenting the Damage to Syria?s Archaeological Sites
Emma Cunliffe sits in a tiny graduate student?s office on the medieval campus of the University of Durham. But her mind is thousands of miles east, in Syria. Every day she goes online, sometimes for a few hours, to monitor the Facebook feeds of local Syrian groups for word about damaged sites.
She?ll scroll past horrific photos of dead children till she comes across mention of a new archaeological site that was shelled or plundered. She says it?s incredible just how much you can find out from these posts.
?It?s a new world online now,? she says. ?The prevalence of social networking sites like Facebook, ease of access to YouTube, and the way that most people?s mobile phones can take video, means that, all those people who are desperate to share information have a real easy way to upload it and make it accessible.?
Click here to read this article from PRI's The World
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The once-majestic 17th-century Palazzo Manfrin, one of this city?s most important architectural sites, is falling apart. Its white neoclassical facade is crumbling, several wooden doors are splintering, and its floor-to-ceiling frescoes have faded from...
- Crac Des Chevaliers In Danger As Syrian Forces Shell Town Around Medieval Castle
Video emerged yesterday which appears to show that the town surrounding Crac des Chevaliers in Syria under artillery fire from Syrian forces. The two-minute video was posted on Youtube by Souria2011archives, an anti-government source that has uploaded...
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