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WBUR Public Radio - Here and Now Friday, August 24, 2012 Violence In Syria Threatens World Cultural Heritage [AUDIO]: <http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/57428818/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c> The list of cultural heritage sites under threat from violence in Syria is staggering: - One of the first known Christian churches - Castles built by Crusaders - Four thousand year old temples - The city founded by one of Alexander's generals to honor his mother - Islamic mosques and Jewish synagogues - Temples as old as Babylon - The city of Ugarit, where the world's first alphabet was composed - A hundred stone villages fully intact from the Roman empire - Ancient tablets that may contain the first mention of the Biblical patriarchs - Medieval hospitals, including one where music was used as therapy for the mentally ill - The mosque marking the spot where, according to local belief, Abraham stopped to milk his goats - Two of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities - Palaces of the early Caliphs and Ottoman Sultans And that is just a fraction of what's in peril. "What we lose is probably the best preserved examples of the continuous civilizational exchange in one land from the third millennium all the way to the present," MIT professor Nasser Rabbat told Here and Now's Robin Young. [ ... ] * More (including a slide show) at: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/08/24/syrian-violence-heritage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~