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St. Astvatsatsin Church before the war (Panarmenian) – Azerbaijani soldiers have been filmed vandalizing the St. Astvatsatsin Church in the Nagorno-Karabakh village of Karin Tak, which came under Baku’s control in the Second Karabakh War in fall 2020. Fresh footage published online shows that the Lord’s table at the altar of the church has been broken, […]

In the recent past, authorities have introduced a number of interventions related to cultural tourism in Lahore. But the approach lacks a holistic...

It is thanks to the work of these archaeologists that we have some idea of the development of Ain Ghazal over the millennia. Based on the archaeological evidence, Ain Ghazal was first occupied around 7250 BC, during a period known as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic . At that time, the settlement consisted of only several hundred inhabitants, who lived in individual houses. These houses were made of stone covered with mud and lime plaster and painted with a red pigment. A change in the settlement occ...

By Chioma Lewis It is difficult to imagine that Toronto’s Trillium Park was once eight acres of asphalt parking lot. The creation of this nature park on the Lake Ontario waterfront is part of the first phase of revitalizing the once vibrant hub of Ontario Place, an entertainment venue that operated as a theme park from 1971 until 2011. In 2019, the Ontario government formally launched a search for developers to bring the site back to life. But last year, the World Monuments Fund added Ontario...