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Protecting cultural heritage around the world

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We’re excited to launch a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled 'Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage'. 

MOOCs are free online courses, available for anyone to enrol from anywhere in the world. By enrolling on the Endangered Archaeology MOOC, you will learn more about identifying and monitoring heritage sites using satellite imagery, and basic map-making to help communicate information about the condition of the sites.  

The course was developed in partnership with our Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) research partners from the University of Oxford. 


Protecting cultural heritage around the world 

To coincide with the launch of the MOOC, we’ve also launched the Durham Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection (DCCHP), led by our Department of Archaeology.  

The Centre builds on our expertise in global cultural heritage protection and offers training and knowledge exchange with cultural heritage professionals around the world.  

Heritage is essential to our sense of identity and place in the world. However, it is increasingly under threat from conflict, tourism, natural disasters and climate change.  

What are the DCCHP's aims? 

Inspired by Durham's own UNESCO World Heritage site, and our knowledge and experience of global heritage protection and training, we are working to sustain and protect cultural heritage for future generations.   

We do this through documenting heritage sites, research, training, and consultancy. We also aim to understand how people across the globe engage with, and respond to, their own heritage and that of others. 

Find out more

'The Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage' MOOC is available in English and Arabic.

We plan to extend this to other languages soon. 

The Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project was established in 2015 in partnership with colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester. Find out more about the EAMENA on our website.  

 

 

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