Fascinating story on the fabled site at Carcemish, on the Turkey/Syria border. Its precarous position has paradoxically meant it was protected by mines meant to deter aggression but happily also deterring looters. Now archaeologists are getting overhead shots by sending up kites. Now all we need are cameras that can upload those images automatically so kiteflying citizens can crowdsource site monitoring.
New Study Revealed Looting Continuing in Syria
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Jesse Casana et al, Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Archaeological Site
Damage in Syria: Revisiting a Post-War Landscape, Heritage (2026). DOI:
10.3390/...
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