Few monuments on Earth are as famed as the Great Wall of China. Few know the age-old monument as intimately as William Lindesay, a British long-distance runner who first encountered the wall in 1986. Arriving in Beijing with little more than a pair of running shoes and a backpack, Lindesay was...Read more
Few sites are as romantic and sublime as the majestic, yet crumbling castles and abbeys of Great Britain and Ireland. Though most are but spare renderings of their former selves, they evoke a timeless beauty, a golden age of art and architecture. For all their splendor, however, many of these...Read more
On April 10, the world stood by as war-torn Baghdad's National Museum and Manuscript Library, the latter a repository for some 5,000 of the earliest-known documents, were sacked and looted. In the days that followed, numerous accounts of the tragedy surfaced in the media, yet the true...Read more
Of all the challenges facing the field of preservation, among the greatest has been the replication of ancient techniques or methods of manufacture that are no longer practiced. This issue we highlight tw o projects that have required a revitalization of lost, or vanishing, arts. At Qianlong's...Read more
November is acque alte in Venice, a time when the Moon and Mother Nature conspire to inundate the ancient city, threatening its magnificent artistic treasures. While this season has brought its share of high water, little could compare with the 194-cm tide that struck the city just before sunset on...Read more
For nearly four decades, the World Monuments Fund has been on the forefront of preservation, working to save sites around the globe. For every project we have undertaken, there are seemingly dozens of stories t o be told, of lessons learned, of technologies developed, and of strategies devised to...Read more
WMF in 2000 added its voice to an international outpouring of concern over the pending inundation-<lue to the opening ofthe Birecik dam along the Euphrates River--of Zeugma, an ancient Roman archaeological site in eastern Turkey. In May, a letter from Bonnie Burnham, WMF's president, to...Read more
Three exceptional Britisih brothers who have made the worldwide preservation of cultural sites and monuments thelr personal concern received the WorId Monuments Fund's 12th annual Hadrian Award at a luncheon at New York's Plaza Horel on October 22, 1999. Lord John Sainsbury of Preston...Read more
By targeting sites for immediate action the World Monuments Watch® (WMW) has helped to protect and preserve many cultural heritage sites around the world. Listing has enabled site advocates to bring pressure on local communities and decision makers, influencing public opinion and achieving positive...Read more
The Honorable Jenonne Walker, recently appointed Vice President for Europe, assumed the newly created post at the organization's Paris office on November It 1998. Walker retired in October as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic after more than three years of distinguished service. During her...Read more