Bijan Rouhani

📣📣 We are holding an online event on Digital Heritage & the Global South on 15 July looking AI & the value & challenges it presents. Registration is FREE - please follow 🔗👉🏻
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@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

19.06.2025 09:02 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Iran closes museums and moves artefacts to secure storage According to local news reports, emergency protocols have been enacted to safeguard cultural objects and heritage sites amid conflict with Israel

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/18/i...

18.06.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scroll through for our latest update on #heritage places and link to our #EAMENA #Database!! 👇🏻👇🏻
database.eamena.org

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@archanchistleic.bsky.social

29.05.2025 10:06 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

In my new paper with @bill-finlayson.bsky.social we explore the weaponisation of cultural heritage beyond armed conflict, and examine how its destruction, preservation, and representation can be strategically manipulated in political and social contexts—to shape identities or erase those of others.

05.03.2025 12:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My new paper, co-authored with our late colleague F. Nazari, "Submerged Past: Dam Construction & Cultural Heritage Protection in Iran," examines the impact of dam projects since the 1950s, exploring policy gaps, funding challenges & emergency rescues—plus case studies & remote sensing insights.

24.02.2025 14:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some of the original team at EAMENA in 2015.

EAMENA Team conducting training to MENA heritage professionals in Amman in December 2022.

EAMENA Team conducting training to MENA heritage professionals in Tunis in November 2019.

MENA heritage professionals celebrating completion of training in Tunis 2019.

It's our 10 year anniversary! We thank Bob Bewley, David Kennedy & Andrew Wilson our co-founders, @ox.ac.uk for supporting us, Arcadia & the British Council for backing us, all our colleagues past & present who joined us, and our partners in the MENA region whom we have worked & collaborated with!

07.01.2025 14:58 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Our collaboration with the MOTA and DOA teams has focused on their datasets, including damaged cultural heritage sites in #Gaza, archaeological sites in the Tafila region of Jordan, and Ammonite towers in Amman.
The outcome will be the publication of data papers in open-access journals.

04.12.2024 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The PADA workshop aims to introduce digital tools that facilitate the publication of archaeological and cultural heritage datasets, addressing the digital divide and overcoming barriers faced by Global South scholars and field archaeologists in disseminating their research.

04.12.2024 18:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi BlueSky! We are EAMENA based @universityofoxford.bsky.social, University of Durham & @archanchistleic.bsky.social. We use remote sensing technologies to record & map #endangered #archaeology & #heritage data in the MENA region in our #database. Follow us to discover more about what we do!

22.11.2024 12:29 — 👍 18    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2