Promoters of Cultural Heritage

Promoters of Cultural Heritage

Tur Abdin and whole Turkey, as well as the whole area of Mesopotamia have an immense and rich Cultural Heritage dating back millennia before Christ. 

Also all these ancient sites would be protected and preserved in Europe, North America and other parts of the world, noone cares about most of them in these regions. Of course, some exceptions are declared Cultural World Heritage, others are under care of museums. But quite often this care consists in a fence and none cares about after the fence is built. 

Most of the eldest and largest sites of cultural heritage are widely unknown, as they are outside, away from villages and cities. Only known by a few private researchers. People that invest a lot of time and money to search for Cultural Heritage Sites, explore them, take PGS-data and take pictures to document them.

I am very thankful some of these guys took their time to guide me to some of theses places in autumn of 2015 and in spring 2016. Some of these places would be like paradise for archeologists: large areas with different layers of historic buildings, ruins above the ground, built upon far elder structures which were built on another layer of elder structures...

One of the aims of this blog will be to talk about the richness and variety of the Cultural Heritage of Tur Abdin and Mesopotamia. I hope, some of the people i will reach with these reports will get interested and will - maybe - become theirselves promoters of the efforts to protect, save and research this unique Cultural Heritage.

I want to thank people like Eliyo Eliyo, an Assyrian from Sweden, Adem Coskun (Bethkustan) and Kawme Sami Dik from Mardin for the help and support they provided me.