The Royal Commission for Alula launches 'I Care' campaign for Northwest Arabia The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), the cultural custodian of northwest Arabia, has launched a new, inclusive heritage conservation campaign that aims to deepen and enrich the public's knowledge, awareness, and desire to protect and uplift AlUla's ancient history. The I Care campaign, which launched on 1 February, shines a local, national, and global spotlight on the importance of RCU's diverse and ongoing heritage protection projects in AlUla as the county continues to be developed into the world's largest living museum. I Care will promote the need to safeguard AlUla's diverse landscape of cultural assets, including natural and manmade monuments, as a means of boosting economic development, driving...
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उत्तराखंड का अल्मोड़ा अपनी सांस्कृतिक विरासत के लिए देश विदेश में पहचान रखता है। इसीलिए इसे सांस्कृतिक नगरी भी कहा जाता है। जितनी यहां की रामलीलाएं मशहूर हैं, उतना ही यहां का दशहरा भी अनूठा है। रामलीला मंचन और विजयदशमी की परंपराएं भारत में बहुत पुरानी हैं। अल्मोड़ा में भी ये दोनों ही पर्व चंद राजाओं के जमाने से मनाए जाते आ रहे हैं। लेकिन मजेदार बात यह है कि अल्मोड़ा के जिस दशहरे की अब सब जगह चर्चा होती है और अब जो बेहद लोकप्रिय है, वह कोई लंबा-चौड़ा इतिहास नहीं रखता। https://youtu.be/_mCp7ljTqCY?si=po5IixQ_WHq-gR_4 अल्मोड़ा के मौजूदा दशहरे का स्वरूप है वहां रावण कुटुम्ब के तमाम लोगों के पुतले बनाए जाना और उनकी झांकी पूरे शहर में निकालना। भारत में बाकी सभी जगहों पर दशहरा के मौके पर रावण के साथ-साथ कुंभकर्ण व मेघनाद के पुतलों के दहन की परंपरा है। शायद अकेला अल्मोड़ा का...
Read MoreTourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world’s most heated debates on cultural heritage. All they need is a smartphone. Visitors can now pinch and zoom their way around the ancient Greek site, with a digital overlay showing how it once looked. That includes a collection of marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon more than 200 years ago that are now on display at the British Museum in London. Greece has demanded they be returned. For now, an app supported by Greece’s Culture Ministry allows visitors to point their phones at the Parthenon temple, and the sculptures housed in London appear back on the monument as archaeologists believe they looked 2,500 years ago. A man holds up a tablet showing a digitally overlayed virtual re...
Read MoreSpain's biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to watch the daring Catalan tradition. Human towers, or 'castells', were added to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010 as an "integral part of (Catalan) cultural identity". Colla Jove Xiquets de Tarragona start to form a human tower called "castell" during a biannual human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Albert Gea The tradition dates back to the 18th century, when people first started building human towers in the Catalan town of Valls. In an event held in Tarragona every two years, teams of 'castellers' compete to construct the highest and most complicated tower by sta...
Read MoreCultural ministers and representatives from 150 countries committed to expanding efforts to return historical artifacts to their countries of origin, according to a declaration released on Friday, following a UNESCO conference in Mexico City. Major museums, auction houses and private collectors have faced growing pressure in recent years to repatriate priceless works of art and other antiquities from Latin American and African nations, among others, which argue the goods were often taken unethically or illegally. FILE PHOTO: Seized items are displayed during an announcement of the repatriation and return to Cambodia of 30 Cambodian antiquities sold to U.S. collectors and institutions by Douglas Latchford and seized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., Aug...
Read Moreभारत में दशहरा कई जगहों पर बेहद खास तरीके से मनाया जाता है। दशहरा चाहे कुल्लू का हो या मैसूर का या फिर कोटा का, सबकी अपनी अलग पहचान है। इन्हीं में से एक है अल्मोड़ा का दशहरा। उत्तराखंड का अल्मोड़ा अपनी सांस्कृतिक विरासत के लिए देश विदेश में पहचान रखता है। इसीलिए इसे सांस्कृतिक नगरी भी कहा जाता है। जितनी यहां की रामलीलाएं मशहूर हैं, उतना ही यहां का दशहरा भी अनूठा है। रामलीला मंचन और विजयदशमी की परंपराएं भारत में बहुत पुरानी हैं। अल्मोड़ा में भी ये दोनों ही पर्व चंद राजाओं के जमाने से मनाए जाते आ रहे हैं। लेकिन मजेदार बात यह है कि अल्मोड़ा के जिस दशहरे की अब सब जगह चर्चा होती है और अब जो बेहद लोकप्रिय है, वह कोई लंबा-चौड़ा इतिहास नहीं रखता। अल्मोड़ा में दशहरे पर अलग-अलग मोहल्लों में बनते हैं पुतले. फोटोः उपेंद्र स्वामी अल्मोड़ा के मौजूदा दशहरे का स्वरूप है वहां रावण कुटुम्ब के ...
Read MoreThe clatter of shields and battle cries filled the misty air as warriors lifted their swords. Nearby, gladiators fought each other for their lives. A festival that featured historic reenactments brought the ancient Roman era back to life this month near a sleepy village in southern Romania, evoking a time when the area was part of the easternmost Dacian provinces of the Roman Empire. Participants in the Romula Fest historic reenactment event clash during a battle in the village of Resca, Romania, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022.(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) In a field close to the village of Resca, local residents watched the costumed reenactors with amusement, fascination and pride. Many identify with the ancient tribes that raided the outer borders of the Roman Empire, triggering what bec...
Read MoreIraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during turbulent years of war. "During the Islamic State period, when my colleague and I were walking around, we would see the statues that were removed, and the gates that were being demolished, we were really troubled by this," Al-Abadi told Reuters. The sculptor Khaled al-Abadi works inside his workshop on his sculptures which depict scenes from the history of the city of Mosul, in Mosul, Iraq, September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily His clay-based murals reflect the country's long history – from the Assyrian period through to the Islamic State occupation. "We want to remind the comin...
Read MoreVictory on other front: Borshch declared a protected heritage at risk from Russian invasion Ukraine claimed victory in an age-old culinary dispute with Russia on Friday after the United Nations' cultural agency placed a traditional beetroot soup on its list of protected Ukrainian cultural heritage. Paris-based UNESCO announced in a statement that it had placed borshch, a rich crimson soup packed with vegetables, on a list of cultural heritage in need of "urgent safeguarding" due to the risk posed to the soup's status as an element of Ukraine's cultural heritage by Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian chef Yevhenii Marshal cooks borshch at a traditional cuisine restaurant, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 1, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Ukraine claimed ...
Read MoreThe International Court of Justice ordered Azerbaijan last week to prevent and punish acts of vandalism and desecration affecting Armenian cultural heritage sites during ongoing conflict in the region. This ruling has potential to go beyond the South Caucasus region and create a benchmark for all such conflict zones around the world. The significance of the ruling extends beyond this one region. As UNESCO has proven relatively powerless to protect cultural heritage at risk in conflict zones, the World Court now emerges as a body that may be better able to safeguard irreplaceable cultural treasures and protect minority rights from the abuses of racial discrimination. The 7th-century Armenian church of Vankasar in Azerbaijan. Photo: Caucasus Heritage Watch Cornell University resear...
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