CaucasusHeritageWatch
@CaucasusHW
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CHW monitors and documents endangered and damaged cultural heritage using high-resolution satellite imagery. Led by archaeologists @Cornell and @LifeAtPurdue.
Joined April 2021
We're looking forward to joining @bellingcat for this conversation on Thursday at 10am EST.
Join us Thursday at 10am EST/4pm CET as we speak to the @CornellUniversi team behind @CaucasusHW. With @JakeGodin we'll be unpacking how you might use open source tools to monitor and assess damage to cultural heritage during times of conflict.
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As world leaders gather in Baku for the COP29 summit to advance solutions for the future, they should also call on Azerbaijan to protect the past – particularly the cultural heritage of Karabakh Armenians exiled from their homes. 6/6
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Preparations for COP29 may have a grave impact on Karabakh’s Armenian cultural heritage. Massive infrastructure and redevelopment projects are threatening, damaging, or destroying cultural sites in the path of omnipresent earth movers. Learn more in the report.
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Azerbaijan has destroyed the remains of two schools and with them traces of a medieval Armenian past. Their ruination encapsulates the cycles of erasure that have wrecked cultural landscapes in the NK conflict. Our latest StoryMap 'Wreckage upon Wreckage'.
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This is the third cemetery destroyed since the 2020 ceasefire. Four others have been damaged. Bulldozing Armenian burials is an emerging feature of post-war development in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh, disturbing ancestors and erasing inconvenient testimony to belonging and coexistence.
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At the entrance to the belfy, building inscriptions in Armenian read: “St. Hovhannes Mkrtich Church was built by Shusha townsman baron Hovhannes and Baba Stepanyan Hovnanents in memory of their deceased brother Mkrtich in the year of 1847.” 3/3
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