Syrian Archaeological Heritage Under Threat, also known as Syrian Archaeological Heritage in Danger, Patrimoine Syrien or Le patrimoine archéologique syrien en danger ( ar, الآثار السورية في خطر) is a cultural heritage activist group that runs a

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page documenting the damage to Syrian and

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during the Syrian Civil War.Journal de Angola, Combates na Síria põem património em perigo, 25 August 2012
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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n and

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s including Ghayad Daoud,

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and

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. The spokesman for the group is Spanish archaeologist

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, who remarked about the damage being done during the conflict ''"If this continues, the situation will be like in

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, it could mean that a heritage that is of great importance for the whole world destroyed."'' The group is not entirely based in Syria, coordinating with colleagues and other sources inside to post photographs and reports. The Facebook page compiles a list of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War and the aim of the group is to make the world pay greater attention to the heritage catastrophe likely to occur in the area and disseminate information about it.

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Le patrimoine archéologique syrien en danger Facebook page
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