Tag: Cultural heritage destruction

Black and white photo of the arch

András Riedlmayer puts this war crime on the map

Close-up image of torn and desecrated pages from Qur'ans and religious books, inside the burned-out village mosque.

“… if you really want to make a librarian mad, burn down a library.” András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, made this comment when asked why he undertook his project to collect, preserve and publicize evidence of the destruction of cultural heritage in the Balkan wars of the…