Why We Have a Civic Responsibility to Protect Cultural Treasures During Wartime

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


The Taliban’s blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 was a shock, as has been the burning of medieval manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu and ISIS thugs taking sledgehammers to Akkadian and Assyrian sculptures in the Mosul museum. These heinous acts, condemned around the world, point to the material obliteration of history, of people’s diversity and often a society’s complex, multifaceted nuanced identity.

Can we say Monuments Men!

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