Attack on valuable cultural property

The Programmfabrik is deeply affected by the vandalism in the museums of Mosul and the irreparable destruction of cultural relics that are thousands of years old. “It’s like someone destroying the Sphinx in Egypt. The loss is a catastrophe,” said the director of the Vorderasian Museum in Berlin about this shocking news. As the past has shown, cultural assets and monuments are repeatedly targets of terror, protest and resistance - not least because there is a dilemma between media impact and concern. Friederike Fless , President of the German Archaeological Institute increased digitization of art objects in an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur could already be created from fragments using 3D scans .

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