New research is addressing the inadvertent destruction of culturally significant sites and artefacts when clearing regions after war or conflict. Dr Margarete van Ess, director of the Orient Department at the German Archaeological Institute, has been actively involved with safeguarding of the cultural heritage of Iraq. “Time is rather short, when the war is over, to collect and safeguard the remains.” She added: “People of course want to restore their daily life and to achieve this they will remove and destroy in a second way their cultural heritage.” Read more about this at Horizon Magazine.

Horizon Magazine also spent the month of March digging into Europe’s past.