Research Tools: Official Launch of Public Database of ‘At Risk’ Archaeological Sites

From the U. of Oxford Announcement:

Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa, (EAMENA) an archaeological preservation project, [recently] launch[ed] public access to its online database of nearly 20,000 archaeological sites at severe risk due to conflict and other agents of destruction in the Middle East and North Africa.
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EAMENA’s spatial database will provide information for each site, including the level of risk and how each site relates to others. It will be accessible to all heritage professionals and institutions with an interest in the archaeological heritage of the Middle East and North Africa.
It is supported by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing, and based at the Universities of Oxford, Leicester, and Durham. EAMENA was established in January 2015 to respond to the increasing threats to archaeological sites in the Middle East and North Africa. The project uses satellite imagery to rapidly record and make available information about archaeological sites and landscapes which are under threat.

Read the Complete Database Launch Announcement
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