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Syrian and Iraqi cooperation to retrieve smuggled antiquities
SANA reported about a meeting between the Syrian ambassador in Baghdad and the Iraqi Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities. The meeting dealt with a number of cultural issues of concern to the two countries, it also stressed on the importance of uniting efforts between Syria and Iraq to restore the stolen antiquities.
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Latakia National Museum retrieved artifacts being smuggled outside of the country
The Syria Times reported that the National Museum in Latakia has regained 36 rare gold coins; they date back to the Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic eras. The General Director of Antiquities said that the coins were found in Latakia governorate while they were being smuggled outside the country.
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First Syrian Shadow Theater team
The Syria Times reported about the celebration of “Syrian Shadow Theater Team”. The celebration was held by the Syrian Trust for Development coinciding with the World Theater Day. The Syrian shadow theater team consists of 20 young men and women who work to preserve the Syrian Heritage during the ongoing conflict. You can read the full story on the Syria Times website.
Syrian Shadow Play was inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2018.
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Online platform preserves musical heritage for future generations
The Syria Music Map is a new online platform that hopes to preserve this vivid musical mosaic for current and future generations of Syrians, particularly the millions displaced by conflict and forced to forge new lives abroad.
“The aim is to share with a wide audience the richness and diversity of the Syrian musical heritage,” says Basma El Husseiny, director of Action for Hope, which runs cultural development and relief programs for distressed and displaced communities. “Having this map as a resource will get this music out of the archives and make it something that is living and breathing.” You can read the full story at Al-Fanar Media website.
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Syrian cookbook created to preserve the culinary heritage of the Syrian home
The Boston Globe reports on a Syrian man who has taken up the task of preserving the cultural heritage of Syrian meals he grew up with. Anas Atassi, who is not a chef, but likes to cook, collected favourite dishes from his family and friends in “Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria.” These recipes, he writes, “retain the heart of our family life in Syria — a family life shared by the majority of Syrians before the war cast us out and over the whole world.” The stories are even more important now because of the turmoil, he says.
Kaveyeats reports more specifically on the cookbook; with links to online retailers.
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Khaled al-Assaad still to be found
The remains of Khaled al-Assaad, a Syrian archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State group jihadists, have yet to be recovered, his son told AFP on Wednesday.
The official SANA news agency reported in February that authorities had uncovered three corpses in Kahloul, 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the ancient city of Palmyra where Assaad was killed in 2015.
Assaad was believed to be among them, SANA said at the time, ahead of DNA testing.
But two months later, DNA results have shown that the remains of the archaeologist have yet to be found, his son Tareq said.
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The beginning of the restoration of the Arch of Triumph
The Syria Times reported that the Ministry of Culture and the Stone Industry Association of Russia started the process of restoring the archaeological Arch of Triumph in Palmyra. The Director of the Association said that the restoration will be based on 3D photography of the arch and the rubble will be used in studying its components. He also said that original stones on site will be used to reconstruct the arch according to the highest technical standards applicable all over the world. Restoring the arch will be the first step to restore all destroyed monuments in the historical city of Palmyra.
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Damascus heritage archive website
SANA and the Syria Times reported that Syrian researcher Hala Qasqas has launched a new website called “Damascene Heritage Archive Project” with the aim of documenting the heritage of Damascus. The website will be an open database where anyone interested can add content and get benefit from the published materials.
The website consists of six main doors such as historical buildings, popular arts, and traditional crafts. You can visit the website that is available in Arabic through the link here.
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Syrian man creates models of historic places and artifacts in Syria
Ali Taha desires to hand down the cultural heritage of the ancient Palmyra city to future generations by making models of its historical artifacts, which were damaged in Syria’s devastating civil war. Like his archaeologist grandfather and father, Taha devoted his life to historical studies on the ancient city. You can read more about Ali and his work at Anadolu Agency.
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