Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict…

In the talk above, C. Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, gives the Plenary Address at ASOR’s 2013 Annual Meeting. The talk, entitled “Cultural Heritage Protection in Zones of Armed Conflict: Lessons Learned and Future Strategies,” looks at how archaeologists, museums, cultural organizations, and military forces have mobilized (or not mobilized) to protect heritage caught in the crossfire of multiple armed conflicts in the Middle East…