2008 Annual Report - World Monuments Fund

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12 Bandiagara EsCarpmEnt, mali Arou Temple Asandstone ridge—the Bandiagara Escarpment—rises some 1,600 feet above the parched sands of southern Mali and extends 95 miles along the Niger River. This area, a cultural crossroads for millennia, is now the home of the Dogon, known for their extraordinary sculpture and architecture. The buildings embody the subtle and elegant cosmology of the Dogon people and are considered receptacles of the tribe’s traditional beliefs. Today, traditional Dogon life is disrupted not only by growing tourism but also by the activities of development agencies. Newly built infrastructure that is intended to improve the lives of residents is conceived and carried out using industrial building materials, resulting in a dramatic alteration of the landscape harmony and supplanting the traditional Dogon architectural models. In 2004, the World Monuments Fund began working with the European conservation organization CRATerre to develop a management plan for the Bandiagara Escarpment. This year, a program was launched in the village of Arou, a remote and ancient settlement, where the local population will be trained in conservation practices for earthen buildings and in tourism management. This pilot project, when complete, will bring more visitors to the village while protecting the integrity of its built and natural environment. iraq Cultural Heritage Sites of Iraq Iraq’s archaeological sites, ancient monuments, and even contemporary structures—numbering literally in the thousands—were listed in their entirety on the World Monuments Watch in 2006 and 2008 to highlight their terrible state and the tremendous peril they face. Armed conflict, the ravages of time, development pressure, and vandalism endanger the architectural and cultural legacies of a region that has been continuously inhabited since the earliest days of civilization. Our recent efforts related to Iraq focused on a collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute to develop a geographic information system mapping significant archaeological sites. The prototype has been developed in conjunction with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and will be used as a model for a similar database of Iraqi sites. Last year, we organized and conducted a series of meetings and workshops to train Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage personnel in contemporary site surveying techniques and to develop a site management plan for Babylon. As an element of the Babylon site management planning process, we worked with faculty and graduate students at Stony Brook University, New York, to develop contour maps of the site to track topographical changes to key areas over the last several decades. Iraq’s cultural resources are extraordinary and WMF and its project partners are grateful for the opportunity to work with the SBAH on preservation activities. Watch 2004 Watch 2006, 2008
Bulla Regia Archaeological Site bUlla rEgIa, tUnISIa Aqsunqur Mosque (Blue Mosque) CaIro, EgyPt Khasekhemwy at Hierakonpolis HIEraKonPolIS, EgyPt Bandiagara Escarpment Cultural Landscape dogon CoUntry, malI Loropeni Ruins loroPEnI, bUrKIna FaSo Wa Naa’s Palace Wa, gHana Bafut Palace baFUt, CamEroon Tarabay al-Sharify CaIro, EgyPt Luxor Temple Cultural Heritage Conservation Iraq lUxor (anCIEnt tHEbES), EgyPt Africa and the Middle East 2008 WmF aCtIvE SItES Mentewab-Qwesqwam Palace gondar, EtHIoPIa Rock-Hewn Coptic Churches lalIbEla, EtHIoPIa Historic Sites of Kilwa KIlWa, tanzanIa 13
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