The safeguarding of inventories and archives related to Syria’s archaeological sites, historic cities, monuments and cultural objects is a crucial task in today’s crisis situation. Digitizing and preserving these inventories is essential not only to conserve built, movable and intangible cultural heritage, but also to provide reference documentation for rehabilitation and restoration activities in a post-conflict period and for the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property.
Within the framework of its Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage project, funded by the European Union and supported by the Flemish Government and the Government of Austria, UNESCO is working to foster partnerships between Syrian and international institutions and experts in order to improve the state of conservation of available inventories and archival material, some of which are kept in precarious conditions.
Source: UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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