I’m Fred Hebert I’m the National
Geographic archaeology fellow this has
been a pretty bad week for cultural
heritage we’ve seen a lot of videos of
the destruction of museums in Iraq and
Syria in the Muslim museum a lot of very
important for leaves carved stone
sculpture biblical and in age world
renowned in their beauty and their
significance when a sculpture gets
destroyed you lose a tangible aspect of
humanity you sing something that was
made by people thousands of years ago
unfortunately the targeting of ancient
artifacts that are known around the
world is something that that people do
when they’re when they’re angry and
they’re trying to send a message out we
saw that happen in Afghanistan with the
destruction of the giant Buddhas and now
we’re seeing it in Iraq but it doesn’t
convey the message that they are being
successful in erasing human history or
changing the perspective on humanity
that’s impossible to do human history is
their permanent as part of all of our
heritage shared heritage around the
world at the end of the day we will put
the pieces back together today with our
local counterparts in Iraq in Syria as
we do in Egypt and Afghanistan the most
important thing that we can do as global
citizens here in the United States or
around the world is to be aware that
these Unruh knew about cultural
resources like archaeological sites or
sculptures belong to all of us it’s all
part of human history and that when we
see the destruction of something that’s
as far away as northern Iraq it’s part
of our heritage and it’s part of our
concern and we should care about those
artifacts in that history because it’s
our history too
Geographic archaeology fellow this has
been a pretty bad week for cultural
heritage we’ve seen a lot of videos of
the destruction of museums in Iraq and
Syria in the Muslim museum a lot of very
important for leaves carved stone
sculpture biblical and in age world
renowned in their beauty and their
significance when a sculpture gets
destroyed you lose a tangible aspect of
humanity you sing something that was
made by people thousands of years ago
unfortunately the targeting of ancient
artifacts that are known around the
world is something that that people do
when they’re when they’re angry and
they’re trying to send a message out we
saw that happen in Afghanistan with the
destruction of the giant Buddhas and now
we’re seeing it in Iraq but it doesn’t
convey the message that they are being
successful in erasing human history or
changing the perspective on humanity
that’s impossible to do human history is
their permanent as part of all of our
heritage shared heritage around the
world at the end of the day we will put
the pieces back together today with our
local counterparts in Iraq in Syria as
we do in Egypt and Afghanistan the most
important thing that we can do as global
citizens here in the United States or
around the world is to be aware that
these Unruh knew about cultural
resources like archaeological sites or
sculptures belong to all of us it’s all
part of human history and that when we
see the destruction of something that’s
as far away as northern Iraq it’s part
of our heritage and it’s part of our
concern and we should care about those
artifacts in that history because it’s
our history too
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