troll heritage has been a tried strategy since the dawn of culture. the fear is not unfounded. how extinguishing culture wipes out, history arts $21.00 next on d w. ah, what people have to say matters to us. mm. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w with 1st time that i saw it was in 2004 as a video and i really tried to avoid it. and that's why i decided to as sadie or

geology, that's was a motivation for me to study and to see of my culture. ah, rising up to 53 meters tall that were the largest standing buddhist statues in the world. testament to buddhism in the birmingham valley, the heart of afghanistan and the sculptures survived for 1500 years, in spite of islam and its ban or icons. then came the taliban. amidst international protests, the figures were blown up, erasing a part of afghanistan's rich history that was more than 20 years ago. now that the taliban is kim paula. no one knows what will happen to what remains of the buddhist

. sammy on the trauma lingers. mancilla elemy was a child when the buddhist were blown up. as his family in afghanistan didn't have a television, he only saw the destruction lighter, that he knew the buddha statues. well, my father told me it is something that, that, that as connection with religion, it is our culture is 3. i was hide, entity was part of our identity and we should keep it. we should save it for future generations. some want to preserve culture, others want to destroy it. but why is this about ideology, religion or the power to will raise and rewrite history. what to islamists like the taliban? all the terrorist islamic state group want? why will members of i? yes, turning the destruction of the ancient multicultural city of palmera into a media production that infidels can watch on television. is it religious

fanaticism, or clever p r? excuse for years i, for i'm sure it's definitely more about religious fanaticism than anything else. i want as can, it is quite clearly about taking up space and marking territory presents from, from flesh. and if there's money to be made from that or even better, just i really am okay. because then you can use it to buy weapons and coffee. the black market of antiquities is flourishing. cultural property is valued world wide and it's protected. but why? what to cultural treasures, both alone and those of other countries mean to us in a room which may, if it's worth something to someone, but then it's worth protecting. rather soon, because it says a lot about our history, it gives a strength and can be an inspiration. so then on soil nas from a record of pass cultures is also a good reminder that our own on a also power sunday when ah,

we travel 3350 years back in time to an ancient culture. revolutionary pharaoh. i cannot and elevated the sun god art and to the center of worship, thus upsetting the ancient egyptian pantheon of god's art and represented by the disk of the son, protected the divine family, the pharaoh, his wife, nefertiti, and their daughters. here they all looked rather strange. i cannot and also revolutionized the art of portraiture, the distinctive elongated heads and not owed to any illness, as was previously thought, but reflect the new amana style. i cannot and broke radically with the past. he suppressed old coats abolished the priesthood of armen and made plenty of enemies as a result. when the pharaoh died after a 20 year rain,

his portraits were no longer wanted, and many were destroyed. my front as an owncloud, them and hunters, primo did not believe on what this man had initiated a dragon in it. so they actively wanted to oppose it proposed gig and user tight or pony young. and as i, as as deliberately destroyed any images and release of pharaoh, i cannot anesur on our and yet dashed and lawman de spar o h. not wanting to do it. they were probably only given the order to destroy any visible traces of the sparrow after leaving the capital. ha ha! tell i'm on the boost hide. oh dear, befell at tired sir stewart must emma jo fontes and proceed them. it is that way he would disappear from the historiography of egyptian eyes once and for all of us winded. oh, the only female pharaoh did not fare any better. although happ ship suit was often portrayed with the ceremonial beard like her male peers,

a woman pharaoh was too much to handle for her contemporaries. they raised her image. this scandalous woman was not to be remembered. oh, her chips, his teacher was also posthumously disgraced guilty by association. his inscription was partially scratched off. ah, the eurasia of memory, with the for religious all power, political reasons is so common in history that there is even a specific term for it. dom knox, your memorial, censoring the memory of disagreeable predecessors. this practice was especially common in the roman empire. this panel painting depicts empress septimus zadvydas in his family. the missing face is that of his son, gator, who was murdered by his own brother, who then had his image, a raised dance, offered us money, images of certain personalities that were destroyed. okay,

both statues and illustration motto, almost aim, for example, that were done in such a way that i can see that something has been raised either side of it was virtually forbidden to talk about it. but every one could c h and i did as edith on the so it was a warning at the same time. and as of the 5 to some, one was not only made to be forgotten in a sense. but the forgetting itself is what was remembered in all the conundrum. if posterity still remembers the erasure of a person after a long time with a really forgotten or are they remembered even more for being a raised with paintings, it's usually clear who was a raised and why. but that's not the case with sculptures. how do we know whether the boss to this prussian rule was deliberately wacked in the nose? or if it's simply fell off in museums, sculptures used to be given

a new nose and nose jobs so to speak. nowadays, they prefer to show the missing pieces on the face and to try to find explanations . oh, so the stinks of gsa is also missing its nose and research as a still trying to work out why. the creators of the cartoon series asterix apparently found the nose mystery, so intriguing that they decided to have their character overlooks accidentally break it off with the subtle message. don't had your nose in the air. ah ah, ah jokes aside this was a silly yes master in egypt. where tampering with

a statue was treated like a personal assault either and furnished out to her. every statue was a kind of substitute body for the owner. the end which was either placed in the temple or the 2 up redoing and through a ritual known as the opening of the mouth. this statue was granted a kind of vitality back to her. i nod laden's fe kite so beautiful on vandy. when it snows was broken, all that the statue was deprived of its ability to breathe tight with her home, india and her. this would prevent the person that the statue symbolized from living in eternity. in desert tart, ours, who had deemed taught good up his own. in day, even cut. ah, oh, do. even though greek statues were not quite as spirited,

many of them are also missing paces. and it's often the most important part, the head. it's evident that there has been a lot of modification, light, antique figures, and imagery of pagan gods did not fit in with the rise of christianity. but heads were not the only things that rolled naked men were not welcoming christianity either. their more delicate parts were initially chiseled off later replaced by the famous lead, leave them on yet fog light. thus, if you compare what happened in antiquity with what the taliban or the so called islamic state of dom, antique, or possibly we don't have any images from the greek and roman antiquity that clearly show these pieces being desecrated. often, all like the toppling of statues for examples wash, visible i know star to m chandel. i'm start one short sight. it was done on hottest . it was transcribed into literature, the thought, but it wasn't done for publicity. lawsuits was eps dustin and good notes of

a kind of womb shall kaiser hit. a roman emperor would never have promoted himself as someone who had toppled the statue of his previous household on fogging. osgood, in the 1st major dispute of a religious iconography, occurred during the buys, hunting empire, were images of jesus mary and the saints aloud. and could they also be worshipped. many followers of the orthodox catholic faith, believe the icons, a powerful protectors, but 8th century emperors considered them blasphemous. the cross was the only thing that mattered to them. emperor constantine, the 5th, was also an iconoclast. he persecuted people who worshipped icons and had those icons destroyed a cultural struggle that flared up again 800 years later. a new iconoclasm sweat through european churches during the reformation. the new

christian doctrine spread by martin luther was strictly against so called idolatry . churches were looted as a result and thousands of paintings along with other mediaeval artworks winter in flames. gladly vanished. think i have the very strict calvinists in particular, had a very strong desire to assert the power in this way. of the, the advising motto for the month, ian, now under the enforced ban of icons in such a way that was really destructive. i think it has coupled gurgainus and some tied him of anna of get the may. sometimes they also incited a crowd to participate in that which included looting or wagner's meant by that it must also be said that these iconoclasm at times had a pure financial motor lead on because items could be sold for a profit, or if they were made of gold or silver melted down. many people regarded the churches wealth as a huge food. aside, especially the so called indulgence trade,

where followers could secure their place in heaven with donations of a certain amount which generated a lot of income for the catholic clergy. anger about the churches, pomp and power was directed towards these practices and it was difficult to control in some places. the great preacher, martin luther tried to pacify followers, but his influence did not reach across borders. iconoclasm raged in switzerland and later in england. mm. mm. religion is not the only thing that incited feelings of hatred. politics did 2 in 1789 during the french revolution, protest as man the barricades for liberty and other rights. once again, statues were beheaded. this time, those of absolution kings. but the fight for freedom turned into chaos and brutal

violence, not only against people, but against icons and art from the royal palaces. anything that represented the hated feudal aristocracy. abbe gregoire a bishop and member of the national assembly, condemned all acts of extremism and vandalism. he asserted that cultural property should be protected, that it was the plague while he coin some thing that still influences us to day. namely, the idea of cultural heritage as a man's order, one should not destroy any preceding cultural monumentally comparable, even if they are connected to french king se. and because they are monuments of society as a whole thing. and because they were crafted by frenchmen, trucks in, via the phone, from told shuffleboard. but even if they are connected with french king, i quote, they are still monuments that represent cultural heritage does. and why to google? and this idea that content society can inherit something from an earlier culture

just runs through the language of cultural heritage, couture album, ah, radical rethinking with an impact since the hague convention of 1954 cultural heritage sites have been defined as something of global value that must be protected. there are now more than 1150 world cultural and natural heritage sites listed by unesco. iran alone has a particularly high number of cultural heritage sites. 24. not only is not shad johannes square and is for hon. one of the largest and most beautiful sites in the world. it's also a tourist magnet. but these sites came on to political 5 in 2019. often a rainy in general was assassinated by the u. s. military. then president donald trump threatened to attack sites. important for

a rainy and cold shut in case of retaliation and winter, there was an unusual from it. those statements put him on the same level as the taliban. and i asked, in particular ones, which has been very destructive in recent years as element extra on williams. this rhetoric approves this method as an element of warfare. and that's why we want the destruction of cultural heritage recognized as a war. climate for question is, and as school does more, that means that the u. n. and the international court can become resources to protect cultural heritage sites and prosecute crimes against them as crimes against humanity. monitoring that oh, good afternoon for worked. in fact, in 2016 the you and sentenced to member of an islamist terrorist script to 9 years in prison for the destruction of cultural heritage, the mausoleums and molly, in the desert city of tim buck too, was centuries old pilgrimage sites. there also fears that cultural treasures could

be destroyed in the cart war in ukraine, but there have been no targeted attack so far. fortunately, most cultural heritage sites around the world have been spared destruction. but monuments continued to stir up emotions. it after the collapse of the soviet union, the fight of its monuments was called into question. especially the many statues of the socialist hero lennon, b, f, and g unveiled in what was then east berlin became a political issue after the fall of the wall. people in berlin were no longer so keen to have what they regarded to be an ideologically contaminated statue. but in 1991 to the regret of some who had lived in east berlin, the statue of lemons started to be dismantled. it was broken up into a 125 paces, which were then buried outside early in his film,

good by linen director volcano, becca resurrected the communist revolutionary and had him fly through berlin like some angel of utopian allusion. as if saying farewell to socialism, a place to seal of finality on the fact that the better world lennon had fought so hard for had never come to be back to reality. after much debate in 2015 lennon or at least his head was exude. the 3 and a half ton head found a new resting place in spandau, citadel museum. after dodging initial flat from various authorities in west germans, who'd rather the socialist idol, stay buried. escobar pull it up when there would be electrical factors that argued against antonio. and i thought that some people worried that russia was no longer the soviet union of concerned would demand that the entire monument be restored. others worried that backward looking former east germans would make it a pill and that could blow up into

a big problem gas problem either sign con. meanwhile, sanders's which are protected species, had taken up residence on the remnants of the ada. and so they had to be meticulously court by hand along with all their families before the pieces could be dug up. them picture of uncle before that was carbon van conduct. good ah, old heroes, defunct rulers and dictators. whether they're in latin america or in the arabic speaking world, they all received the same treatment rebels and syria toppled bashar allison father and predecessor on his behalf in the countryside. a statue of hafez assad is also destroyed. the more severe the oppression, the more violent the retribution regime changes have often been celebrated by toppling monuments in europe. 2 ah,

the killing of a black man by police brutality, outraged millions, and not just in the usa. the black lives matter movement targets racism and its historical legacy. the statues of confederate generals and the slavery they defended the monuments had to go ah, the same fate was install for the rediscover of america. christopher columbus re styled as a having of colonialism and target of heated emotional debate. history may be reevaluated, but the treatment of newly disgraced monuments remains the same out of sight, out of mind. ah, i left for healing vaguely all the decades of lobbying for a suitable context to be created for these monuments and public spaces and not just

for them to be left standing or simply destroyed as also. and this can be researched and a tested session have been swept away on. he's not hired on the phone on a valid i could understand such a wave of rage taking shape. but personally, i feel bad in the pitch of my stomach whenever something like that is just destroyed to prove in a festa at her. oh, not the monuments like this one to auto von. bismarck 1st chancellor of the german empire. he presided over the infamous berlin conference that lay down regulations, the carving of africa and the pacific into colonies. should he go the way of the confederate generals? known, said the artist, you wrote various and gold. instead, the statesman out of favor should don new college. this summer, it took them 3 months of hard work to give the grand old white man a new paper mesh, a coat of many colors. ah,

i say let empties. ans essentially i see a project as a kind of mediation where the re thinking takes place in people's minds. and we hope this temporary alteration will bring about such a rethinking fluid. on real quick monumental, you can say our project, monumental shadows is an intermediate stage. it has to be since once we're gone through the monuments will still be standing, there is always so it's not like we can pat ourselves on the back and say it was a job. well done. it in any case, something more has to happen. so we're hoping for some discussion at least to him, because these are monuments to violence and think me leg about the art project has already led many viewers to see oh bismark with new eyes. he's colored out, his skin may not have exonerated him, but perhaps it still mystified him a little. this playful approach to this and other colonial era monuments to come in . other countries tends to raise some more basic questions. that's endless stacy end because of the material qualities of paper. monumental shadows raises

a question, could do monuments really have to be meant for eternity as this the for and if they're not for eternity, do we have to have this kind of thing at all of us? ha, can't we think along more temporary lines adding, have the art has become saviors who can show the way out of the historical cycle of toppling monuments, one after another long. it was in them as things stand, artists have to deal with whatever society or government can't manage any other way . and that includes an artistic perspective, a monuments raising anti monuments are handling them some other way than that, maybe with holograms or something, whatever. so it could also be something really exciting, interesting on file or creating something temporary that can be exciting to help. i'm of the firm conviction that in a democracy it can be really wonderful to have so many different possibilities. and the more possibilities, the heart of the choice, the debate over the monument to freedom in unity for germany's re unification raged for nearly 15 years. do we need a monument at all?

if so, where the result was this gigantic cecil 11, there would or we're getting along quite well without this monument target. and i think some day, many people will say we could have done just as well without it. the mac human was the off the mac. you the permanent designation of a spot that you attribute some event to will live on. you form the form that recognition takes her softened a bit on. it's no longer as figurative or martial inform when bobby, and given our digitally dominated lives, it would be lies to have some kind of supplemental digital imagery that could in turn, be changed some day. but the monument goes wilson, and that marks this body of us would remain unchanged desk and even in birmingham, not every one is willing to consign the empty space left by the buddhist statues to oblivion. but any attempt to restore them would cost millions of euros money

desperately needed by the many starving afghans. speaks for the restoration of cultural heritage wants destroyed our digital or 3 d printed solutions. the possibility. but who with these fight copies serve not the archaeologists. mancilla me hopes the taliban will keep their promise and protect what remains of the buddhas. they are saying that they are protecting the nobody knows because i need them, they can change their mind and they do something they their authority because now there are new and then they don't know how to do it. but we don't know what's happening in future. will the taliban preserve? cultural heritage, mansell elemy, isn't the only one with doubts. this makes the work of conservators even more essential. the said than of garza national. a nation is says stay alive. when the culture is the life. so if you don't have culture, you're not, we are nothing. so if you see it won't, why?

this is the same. we are nothing, this is our files. we should know what? so parson would so account how a so culture. it's a portal for identity. it's international identity in ah, ah

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