TAC features the heritage crisis in Iraq

[L. Coyote]

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007
Subject: TAC features the heritage crisis in Iraq
To: Friends and colleagues:


The protection of the human cultural record is central to ALI's mission, so we welcome every opportunity to present films that focus on that theme. Now we have a film reminding people around the world about the tragedy that struck Iraq in April 2003 and still is unfolding. The ransacking of the Iraq Museum and the destruction at other Iraqi cultural institutions and sites is the topic of Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).

This film in very shocking fashion details the horrendous destruction of the oldest treasures of human civilization held in the museums and archives of Iraq in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion. At that time, millennia of history were bombed, looted and destroyed. With them went a large part of our precious memory and knowledge of Iraq as a cradle of human civilization. Much of the footage shown is from the time and place of the destruction, which stands as a prime example of the loss of treasured cultural patrimony that often is caused by war.

This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs. Only with your help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported programming. We also welcome new content partners as we reach out to the world community.

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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org