Baghdad – In early March ended the first part of the program “Support to institutional protection and recovery action of the cultural heritage of Iraq”, funded by General Secretariat of MIBACT and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. At the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH) Erbil it was held the closing ceremony of the two training courses “Monitoring and Saving Archaeological Landscape : from Remote Sensing to Field Survey” and “First Aid and conservation techniques of Damaged archaeological Sites”, launched on 15 January. The two courses, focused on technology and skills transfer “Remote Sensing; GIS-based archaeological cartography; survey; conservation of archaeological materials: stone and mud brick) have involved twenty Iraqis and Kurds students for a total of 420 hours of lectures and the field experiences. (9Colonne)
