Ten countries have banded together to form a new coalition that seeks to protect ancient heritage from extremism and senseless destruction. The announcement, made at the “Ancient Civilizations Forum” in Athens yesterday, April 24, is an international effort to combat ISIS’s on-going destruction of ancient sites in Syria and northern Iraq, including Palmyra, Nineveh, and Nimrud.

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