Delhi Tourism admits it has no plans for the derelict wasteland called the Coronation Memorial.
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Over the last four years the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, with financing from the World Monuments Fund and help from the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, has built an ambitious Web-based system that will allow archaeologists and conservators there, for the first time, to gain access to decades’ worth of records about Jordan’s sites and to monitor the condition of those sites much more easily.
As American troops pack up their guns and tanks, dismantle bases and stream out of Iraq this month, an intellectual invasion of archaeologists, urban planners and art historians stream in. Jeff Allen, an American preservation planner, is part of that onslaught. Contracted by the New York City-based World Monument Fund, a private organization dedicated to preserving architectural and cultural heritage sites, Allen's personal mission is to save the ruins of ancient Babylon.
A special international partnership will make the Peabody Essex Museum the first place in the world to display a group of 90 imperial objects from a hidden Chinese palace complex inside Beijing's Forbidden City.
Deforestation has led to soil erosion at Yaxchilán, a Mayan city across the border in Mexico, which in turn has swollen rivers that erode limestone temples, said Norma Barbacci, regional director for the World Monument Fund. Ash from the squatters’ burns to clear fields for planting cause acid rain that wears at temples.
Despite an outcry from local and international presersvation groups, the Spanish bank CajaSol has broken ground on a 180-meter-high office tower in Sevilla.
The United States on Tuesday will unveil the newly restored Hôtel de Talleyrand, the historic Parisian palace on the Place de la Concorde that once served as the headquarters of the Marshall Plan, the postwar American reconstruction plan for Western Europe. The restoration took nine years and cost about $5 million, financed by more than 100 donors from both sides of the Atlantic and absorbing the efforts of about 150 French artisans
