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Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
Nicola Lercari, Willeke Wendrich, Benjamin W. Porter, Margie M. Burton, Thomas E. Levy,
In late August 2015, international media outlets and cultural institutions reported that the Islamic State beheaded the Syrian scholar Khaled al Asaad and destroyed the 1st-century CE Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria. The world was horrorstruck. Apart from the human tragedy, archaeologists and the...