Africa has some of the world’s most important geological landscapes, yet they remain under-represented in digital geoheritage research.
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A distinctive local variety of grapevine from Ethiopia’s Tigray region could offer potential as a dryland crop.
The Vikings are big draw for tourists and museums struggle to balance the real history.
Israel’s airstrikes in the south of the country have damaged ancient Roman ruins, mosques, schools and churches.
For women in war zones, heritage sites can go beyond worship and history. They are places of gendered socialising.
Heritage is a cultural process rather than a set of old things.
Plus, tips for your own census search once it’s released.
Over the centuries, buildings were constructed in and around the graves and monuments and then were transformed into homes.
When war damages historic monuments, more than architecture is lost.
The film suggests that building a library is not merely about a building or books; it is about dialogue and citizenship.
Protecting heritage in Canada requires training more archeologists and equipping them with the tools and education to do so.
Citizenship as reparation must not translate into citizenship as entitlement.
Heritage is a public good and people should be able to engage with their past.
A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.
More people will be going to the Moon in coming years, and the way current legal frameworks are written could lead to conflict.
It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.
The World Monuments Fund submission highlights that there are almost 100 sites on the Moon bearing traces of the human history of space exploration.
South Africa is home to some remarkable geoheritage.
Both sacred and secular the cathedral illustrates the conflict between tradition and reform in France.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Federation University Australia
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Architecture, University of Liverpool
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University