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Skip to main content Currently Reading From the Battle of the Alamo to civil rights, San Antonians honor history on Woolworth Building's centennial FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Bénédicte Montlaur, CEO of the World Monuments Fund, was in San Antonio in early 2020 to discuss the 1921 Woolworth Building, visible behind her, and to advocate for its preservation in the face of renovations to Alamo Plaza. The international preservation organization based in Paris, France had placed the building on its watch list of threatened heritage sites.Billy Calzada /Staff PhotographerShow MoreShow Less 2of4 Ne...

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 occurred around the beginning of the 7th millennium BC. At that time, the population of Ain Ghazal ro...

U.S. and Liberia Sign Joint Statement On Friday, April 30, 2021, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia Michael McCarthy joined Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism Ledgerhood Rennie, National Traditional Council Chief Zanzan Karwor, and Deputy Minister for Legal Affairs Deweh Gray at Providence Island to announce a U.S.-Liberian collaborative initiative on the preservation of the historic venue and development of recommendations for its reuse. Also in attendance were Minister of Justice Frank Musah Dean, Mayor of Monrovia Jefferson Koijee, and Stephen Battle, Program Director of the World Monu...

Liberia, United States Governments Sign Pact for the Development of Liberia’s Historic Providence Island Liberia, United States Governments Sign Pact for the Development of Liberia’s Historic Providence Island Share Providence Island, where indigenous tribes lived for centuries prior to the arrival of formerly enslaved American settlers in 1821, is essential to telling the story of Liberia, its peoples, and nationhood. It is also a symbol of the enduring relationship and people-to-people ties between the United States and Liberia. Monrovia – On Friday, April 30, 2021, U.S. Ambassador to...

Monday, 8 February, 2021 - 08:45 Jeff Allen has been working on the Babylon site since 2009. The 2,500-year-old dragon relief behind him is related to Marduk, the patron deity of Babylon. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen for The New York Times) Babylon - Jane Arraf Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon. Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than 2,000 years ago obscure part of the cuneiform inscription — a reminder that these ruins were once a...