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op-ed / Crisis

Heritage Forensics Is Tackling Devastating New Forms of Cultural Erasure

Adam T. Smith, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan
In the Caucasus, researchers are using aerospace technology to expose the clandestine obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage. These new methods of archaeology will prove necessary in the global fight against authoritarianism.