Between 1998 and 2004, Farchakh has made numerous trips to Iraq to
document the state of its archaeological sites. Her site
photographs bear dramatic testimony to the damage that sites such as
Umma,
Umm al-Aqarib, and
Larsa in the South, or
Nimrud and
Nineveh in the North have suffered
from looting since the 2003 Iraq War. In May 2003, one month after the
end of the Iraq War, she visited the
Iraq Museum and
documented the damage by looting that had occurred under the eyes of
Coalition Forces after the fall of
Baghdad in early April.
She has presented papers on her work in Iraq at the World
Archaeological Congress (Washington D.C., 2003), at the Global Heritage
Fund Workshop on Iraqi Heritage, (Petra, Jordan, June 2004), and at the
International Symposium for Cultural Heritage Protection (Istanbul,
Turkey, July 2004).
In conjunction with her
lecture tour through the United States (a
webcast
of her lecture at Berkeley given on February 7, 2005 is available
on-line), Farchakh
has kindly provided us with numerous photographs taken on these trips.
162 of these images are posted here
with her permission.
Museum Photos
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Recovered Objects
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Site Photos
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More site photographs from other
sources have been posted our
site
photograph overview. Cross references
between these and other Farchakh's photographs will be added in the
near future. Additions and corrections to identifications or
descriptions of these images are welcome; please forward them to
Clemens Reichel (
cdreiche@midway.uchicago.edu).
Copyright and permissions:
Questions concerning permissions to reproduce any of these
photographs should be directed to Joanne Farchakh (
joannef@terra.net.lb)
herself, NOT
to the Oriental Institute.
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