What does an ethical future for digital heritage look like? 🌍 Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage. 🔹 19 Nov 2025 🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK 🔹 Online ( Zoom)

📣Our Dr Bijan Rouhani took part in the Digital Heritage Forum, hosted by Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi on 3–5 November. Co-convening the technical session “Future of the Past: Risk Mapping, Communication & Community Resilience” with Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco. #DCTAbuDhabi

Our new book, Reporting Heritage Destruction, examines how heritage loss is reported; who tells the stories, how, and with what consequences. An outcome of Oxford’s ECHGS Hub, with 21 chapters & the Oxford Recommendations. Open access via Archaeopress with hard copies to order.

We’re pleased to launch Recommendations for a Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Policy in Jordan, developed by @eamena.bsky.social (Oxford)& Petra National Trust, with @ahrcpress support. The policy links heritage & climate action, setting a regional model for sustainability and resilience.

My new paper 'From Ruins to Records' in the Journal of Art Crime explores the ethical, political, and technical challenges of digitally documenting and reconstructing heritage in contexts shaped by conflict, climate change, and inequality across the Global South. @arca-artcrime.bsky.social

📣📣 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 🔗👉🏻 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/92c52c... More info found👇🏻 www.arch.ox.ac.uk/echgs-hub-0#... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

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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

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Scroll through for our latest update on #heritage places and link to our #EAMENA #Database!! 👇🏻👇🏻 database.eamena.org @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

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.

EAMENA@eamena.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Read our Bill Finlayson & Bijan Rouhani's recent article which reassesses heritage values in the context of conflicts and diverse societies & calls for equitable preservation practices that respect diverse identities and memories associated with heritage sites. repositori.udl.cat/server/api/c...

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.

EAMENA@eamena.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our @bijanrouhani.bsky.social & his late colleague Farad Nazari look at how dam construction has damaged #Iran's archaeological sites & suggest cultural heritage policies that could lead to more sustainable development that preserve Iran’s rich cultural heritage. www.apicelibri.it/HandlerObjec...

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!

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.

EAMENA@eamena.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our team held a Publication & Archaeological DAta Workshop at #Oxford with our colleagues from #Palestine's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities & #Jordan's Department of Antiquities to address scholarly inequalities and support our database contributors to publish their data in research & data papers.

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!