#heritage
‘Beyond the Stones’ : 35th Anniversary of the #Stonehenge and #Avebury #World #Heritage Site
#history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqTvFw-ggnk
Third Time’s a Charm — #Lunar #Library Successfully Lands on the #Moon — #Backup of Human #Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.
One day, these spaceborne knowledge repositories will not only preserve our past, but will also enrich, inspire and accompany #future generations who venture forth and make their homes amongst other worlds. They will carry the flame of our civilization, our #heritage and our #homeworld with them.
I would be surprised if our civilization survives the next 50 years and whether we will still have the ability to reach #space at all. Another danger is the destruction of #knowledge by #AI. If AI can tell us everything in the future, nobody will have to learn anything.
so evil and t it just carries on
WIDESCALE #DESTRUCTION OF #CULTURAL #HERITAGE IN #GAZA by Geraldine Kendall Adams #MuseumsAssociation
"As of 25 January, Unesco says it has verified damage to 22 sites in Gaza since the war began, including five religious sites, 10 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, two depositories of moveable cultural property, one monument, one museum and three archaeological sites.
Other media reports suggest that the destruction may be more extensive. Earlier this month, several news agencies reported that Israeli forces had demolished the main buildings of Al-Israa University, south of Gaza City, including a museum housing around 3,000 objects of art, archaeological artefacts, specimens, materials and instruments."
#CulturalHeritage #Museum #Archaeology #Gaza #War #Unesco #Architecture
‘Our #god was locked in a US #museum’: the #heritage hunters bringing home #Nepal’s lost #treasures
Flicking through a newspaper in 2020, #SanjayAdhikari read a story that changed the direction of his life – a Nepalese statue of gods #Laxmi and #Narayan, was on display at the #Dallas Museum of #Art. “I could not sleep. Our god was locked inside a museum in the US,” he says.
#USA #justice #problem #religion #crime #humanrights #colonization #news #history
Palestinian statues torn down by Israeli forces | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Israeli forces have been destroying statues and monuments of Palestinian resistance during raids in the occupied West Bank. Among them is this well-known cul...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Art #Artists #Culture #Heritage #Horsestatue #Israel #Jenin #Monument #Occupied #OccupiedWestBank #Palestine #Statue #WestBank #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Palestinian statues torn down by Israeli forces | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
#Republicans to meet allies of #Hungary’s Viktor #Orbán on ending #Ukraine aid
Story by Flora Garamvolgyi and David Smith
..."Allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán will hold a closed-door meeting with Republicans in Washington to push for an end to US military support for Ukraine, the Guardian has learned.
Márton Ugrósdy, the deputy state secretary for the prime minister’s political director’s office, and Attila Demkó, a leading pro-Orbán academic, along with members of the Hungarian embassy in Washington, will on Monday begin a two-day event hosted by the #conservative #Heritage Foundation thinktank."...
Yasser Arafat memorial destroyed by Israeli forces | AJ #shorts
Watch the moment an Israeli bulldozer destroyed a memorial to former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Scholars say ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Israeli #Palestinian #Tulkarem #YasserArafat #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bulldozer #conflict #constitute #cultural #deliberate #destroyed #destruction #heritage #latestnews #memorial #newsheadlines #occupiedWestBank #president #warcrime
Yasser Arafat memorial destroyed by Israeli forces | AJ #shorts
The only democracy in Middle East : Israel's Minister of #Heritage Amichai Eliyahu: "The northern #Gaza Strip is more beautiful than ever. Bombing and laying waste to everything, just a feast for the eyes... The day after... we will hand out plots to all those who fought for Gaza over the years."
Openly talking about ethnic cleansing of Gaza and confiscating their land.
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
Thefts expose #BritishMuseum’s ‘ridiculous’ stance on return of #artefacts, says MP | British Museum | The Guardian
Return them now. Make replicas and put those on display.
Au détour de chemins caillouteux, entourées de végétation basse et aride, se trouvent des balises vers nous même.
Pedradrete ouest
#megalithe #menhir #france #pyrenees #pyreneesorientales #heritage #soi #identité #catalan #payscatalans #pin #roche #poussiere
"This bus lane will cost £160m.
#Plymouth Council just #destroyed hundreds of #trees.
The #Councillors and #town #councils should be the ones removed.
#BritishMuseum in talks with #Greece over return of #ParthenonMarbles | #Parthenon #Marbles | The Guardian
Return them. Make replicas and display those here instead.
#UK #Politics #Archaeology #History #Heritage #AncientGreece
This afternoon we went to #DownHouse which was the residence of #CharlesDarwin. #EnglishHeritage have done a good job of restoring the house and opening it up to the public. You can see furnished parts of the house such as the study, bedrooms, drawing rooms and childrens' and billiard rooms and so on.
This is a stone statue of #Darwin but I should have used a flash because it has come out rather dark.
From the large garden, you can get a good view of the entire family house.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Winter #History #Science #Heritage
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Masterpiece of Iranian architecture: 17th century ceiling of the Music Hall within Ali Qapu Palace, Isfahan Iran. The ceiling, decorated with muqarnas, has a double walled design featuring acoustic niches to absorb echoes, allowing audiences to hear the musicians clearly without distortion.
The hall was used by the musicians when a European guy in 18th century was invited by the king to capture the music with his vax recording device to capture and "burn" the songs on a large collection of vax cylinders.
The recordings surfaced about 30 years ago but they said that they were bought by a private buyer who outbid the Iranian national heritage representative by 300%. The story died out ever since, but it was referred to "sedaye soukhte" (the burned sounds) collection in various circles inside and outside Iran.
There is no way of finding any clear or reliable source about the story to verify it's authenticity. It might have just been one of those urban legends or con-men stories.
The place is absolutely mind blowing, every section of it is unique and beautifully crafted and adapted to the curves of the arches and different angels. I remember the first time I visited the place when I was 12 or 13, I pend over an hour with my foldable binoculars trying to identify each piece and count how many they were. I had headache the whole afternoon after that.
I repeated the same just a few months before I left Iran but that time with a much better set of binoculars and with 2 other friends who were as crazy as I was about the architecture.
I wish to go back one day and show it to my kids.
#Iran #Architecture #Music #Acoustic #Isfahan #Recording #History #Culture #Heritage