The Temple of Baal, earlier & afterwards devastation yesteryear ISIS
In 2015 ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baal inwards the ancient metropolis of Palmyra inwards Syria. This pointless devastation of a World Heritage site briefly managed to plough the world's attending towards the danger faced yesteryear archaeological sites some the world, peculiarly inwards North Africa together with the Middle East.
Endangered Archaeology inwards the Middle East & North Africa (EAMENA) is a database of over 20,000 archaeological sites nether threat. The database is a articulation projection yesteryear Oxford, Leicester together with Durham Universities. The spatial database itself was created using Arches, an open-source geospatially-enabled software platform for cultural heritage inventory.
Using the EAMENA interactive map y'all tin search the database for endangered archaeological sites yesteryear location. EAMENA likewise includes a listing of pop searches which provides access to themed searches of the database, such equally the 'destroyed sites' search which returns 3,314 sites that EAMENA judges to bring already been completely destroyed.
