A glimpse of the lost art of painted wooden synagogues popularized among Eastern European Jewish communities in the 17th and 18th centuries
ARCHES: place and identity
Bayt Farhi, a Sephardic palace in Ottoman Damascus, helps us to learn about the complex history of Damascus's Jewish quarter and ongoing challenges with contemporary restorations
Bayt Farhi, a Jewish house in Damascus
The remains of thousands of enslaved New Yorkers lay below the streets, sidewalks, and towers of lower Manhattan
Unearthing New York’s history of slavery
Learn about the complex history of a 19th-century Kwakwaka'wakw belt and its relationship to Kwakwaka'wakw cultural revitalization, World's Fairs, and photographic manipulation.
Ceremonial belt (Kwakwaka’wakw)
The original Ghetto, on a small Venetian island, hides Renaissance era synagogues of startling beauty
The Renaissance Synagogues of Venice
Acts of sacred theft, Venice as a mosaic of treasures from afar
Venice’s San Marco, a mosaic of spiritual ...
Invasion, reconstruction, and trafficking all threaten this biblical site—but even today, Iraqis regularly visit.
Ancient Babylon: excavations, restorations and modern tourism
The long forgotten residents of Seneca Village were evicted to make way for Central Park.
Seneca Village: the lost history of African ...
Terrorists overran Palmyra twice despite international cries for protection, sowing irreversible destruction.
Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient ...
The Spanish destroyed the main Aztec temple: an expression of spiritual and political conquest.
Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of ...
Easter Island is world famous, but local people are only now reasserting control over their history.
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