Source: Textual Cultures, Material Cultures: Callousness among the Ruins
This is a sobering article about the value placed on human lives versus antiquities and archaeological sites in Syria. It will take me a while to process it. The tendency to over-value(?) irreplaceable antiquities that could be appreciated for many generations to come, and to undervalue (no question mark here) the lives of people living on or near these sites, and people who lose their lives studying sites in war-torn regions of the world isn’t limited to archaeologists.