We all know that civilizations, through the millennia, have had a way of rising and falling. But many of us don’t yet appreciate the fact that even after the fall, a civilization still has value — and can still come to harm. Archaeologists have used the traces left by bygone early cities, nations, and empires to gain an in-depth understanding of human history, but they can only continue doing so if the sites they study have the proper protection.
Kaynak: 20,000 Endangered Archaeological Sites Now Catalogued in a New Online Database