On the Destruction of Cultural Heritage.

Intrinsically intertwined, art and culture are essential, inescapable parts of the human experience. The looting and destruction of both artefacts and archaeological sites is an extraordinarily harmful practice that severely impacts local cultures and their traditions, as well as future scientific and academic developments, and the antiquities market. The destruction of cultural heritage and antiquities is described as “an element of today’s terrorism,” (Hill 2016a: 111). Furthermore, it can be considered an act of genocide under Raphael Lemkin’s definition of the term (Nováček et al. 2017). There is also evidence that the destruction and looting of antiquities and archaeological/cultural sites is a direct violation of Article 27(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (Matthews et al. 2019).<a href="https://medium.com/@000jaydenmorrison/on-the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage-5777f92f325c#_ftn1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow">[1]</a> This essay will attempt to explore the impacts that the destruction and looting of antiquities has on our understanding of ancient cultures,  <a href="https://medium.com/@000jaydenmorrison/on-the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage-5777f92f325c">Website</a>