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Climate change impacts, from higher temperatures to worsening floods, now threaten to condemn these and dozens more African landmarks to the history books.
Source: Africa’s heritage sites are in peril as planet heats up
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The impact of sea level rise on African sites has largely been understudied.
Source: New Study Models Sea Level Rise Risks at African Heritage Sites
In particular danger is Dubrovnik, clinging to the Croatian coast, a medieval city long known as the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’ and a main setting for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’…
Tunisia – Archaeological Site of Carthage
In one of the rooms of the Bardo museum in Tunis stand headless Roman statues; the heads are in glass cabinets on the walls. This, Anmar our guide explains, is because when one emperor died and was replaced by another only the statues’ heads were changed: the bodies were idealised anyway so they could be used again and again.
In another room he stops and points with a proud flourish to ‘our Mona Lisa’ – a mosaic of Virgil flanked by two muses and writing the Aeneid, the only known likeness of one of the most important poets of antiquity.
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