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2004 WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH LIST :100 MOST ENDANGERED SITES ANNOUNCED
ARCHAEOLOGY ^ | October 13, 2003 | nwrep

Posted on 10/13/2003 7:31:19 PM PDT by nwrep

ARCHAEOLOGY

 ONLINE NEWS September 24, 2003

2004 WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH LIST OF
100 MOST ENDANGERED SITES ANNOUNCED


Endangered cultural heritage monuments listed this year range from ancient Ephesus in Turkey to Paraguay's railroad. (Courtesy World Monuments Fund)


Endangered cultural heritage monuments listed this year range from ancient Ephesus in Turkey to Paraguay's railroad. (Courtesy World Monuments Fund)

For the first time, the World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites covers every continent, including its first Antarctica nomination, explorer Ernest Shackleton's hut. The list, announced today by the World Monuments Fund (WMF), also features for the first time sites in Australia, Ecuador, Finland, the Palestinian Territories, Paraguay, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Trinidad and Tobago. Also of interest this year are multi-national nominations such as the Jesuit Guaraní Missions submitted by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay; and industrial sites of cultural value such as the company towns of Chile's nineteenth-century saltpeter industry.

   The World Monuments Watch list helps raise awareness and funds needed to preserve these sites and encourages local communities to protect their cultural heritage. Nominations must include a proposal for action in addition to an explanation of the cultural monument, its importance, and the threats it faces. Sites are selected based on their plan for conservation and need of support.

   "By working to preserve these treasures, WMF and its partners are helping to save for future generations the structures and places that tell us who we are. Be it a palace, a cave painting, an archaeological site, or a town, the sites on the Watch list speak of human aspirations and achievements. To lose any one of them would diminish us all," says WMF President Bonnie Burnham.

Highlights of the 2004 list:
(Links to WMF photos and descriptions)


* For the World Monuments Watch's complete 2004 list, see www.wmf.org


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; historical; history; monuments; world

1 posted on 10/13/2003 7:31:20 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

They didn't mention the Great Pyramids of Ukraine!

2 posted on 10/13/2003 7:46:22 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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3 posted on 10/13/2003 7:46:46 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: nwrep
Ephesus is a really cool site. That facade in the picture is of the library that once stood there.
4 posted on 10/13/2003 7:47:24 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: nwrep
In Jamacia is an historic town in need of attention according to this list.

Maybe Harry Belefonte could go home and do something useful instead of staying in this country, all the while bad mouthing everything American. Belefonte owned an estate in Jamacia last time I was there.
5 posted on 10/13/2003 8:15:48 PM PDT by Lucy Lake
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To: nwrep
Please explain "Historic Lower Manhattan"?
6 posted on 10/13/2003 8:22:28 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: nwrep
100 MOST ENDANGERED SITES

Hasn't salon.com been on that list for the last couple of years?

7 posted on 10/13/2003 8:26:22 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (This is the one-millionth tag line!)
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To: nwrep
It's too late for this historic African-American landmark that was demolished to make way for the Clinton Presidential Library:


8 posted on 10/13/2003 8:36:24 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (No, *this* is the one-millionth tag line!)
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