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This determination was made due to construction activities destroying any information that was important in prehistory or history that was remaining at the site. While development cannot be discontinued simply to protect archaeological sites, having a basic understanding of what might be impacted before development takes place could help ...
In 1826 a fire destroyed much of the church, and the remaining ruins were demolished in 1844. On 25 August 1914, during World War I , the university library of Leuven was destroyed by the Germans against the backdrop of other war crimes . 230,000 volumes were lost, including medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and more than 1,000 incunabula .
The Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale was excavated in 1900 and many of the frescoes were stripped from the walls and auctioned off. One of the more notable conservation and restoration projects has taken place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, where they have restored and installed the paintings (2002-2007) from the Villa's cubiculum, or bedroom, for the new Greek ...
Due to the remoteness from human habitation and its arid environment, the site remained largely untouched by humans or nature for two millennia. Many of the ancient buildings have been restored from their remains, as have the wall paintings of Herod's two main palaces, and the Roman-style bathhouses that he built.
The Project Lyobaa research team discovered a system of caves and passageways believed to be the “hellish” entrance, also known as the temple of Lyobaa, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca ...
The footpaths and road have also been worn down by pedestrian activity since excavation. Feral dogs were particularly an issue in Pompeii. The dogs which occupied buildings around the Forum in the 1980s have been removed. Hundreds lived on the site, inadvertently damaging footpaths, roads and walls, as well as proving aggressive towards some ...
Salamis, Ancient Greek ruins in Cyprus.. Ruins (from Latin ruina ' a collapse ') are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...