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The Syrian archaeological heritage in a photographic exhibition in Florence
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The Syrian archaeological heritage in a photographic exhibition in Florence

Categories: Archaeology and Heritage

Wandering through Aleppo. The city and its region, past and present.

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During a new phase of activities in Syria devoted to record, safeguard and promotion of its archaeological heritage, SAGAS Department of the University of Florence presents a photographic exhibition on the city of Aleppo and its region. The exhibition in the premises of the Department in Florence (via San Gallo 10) opened the 14th November 2022 in the framework of the Public Engagement week and will last until the 31st January 2023.

Photos of Aleppo photographers and Italian archaeologists taken before and after the most intense phase of the war will lead visitors along a path within Aleppo and to some key places in the surrounding areas.

Through a choice of 36 places and monuments, the aim is to show not only the destructions the war has caused but also, especially, the resilience and desire of redeem of the city and its inhabitants after twelve years conflict and during a full economic crisis.

Aleppo citadel, a monument and a symbol at once, is the starting point and the arrival of the exhibition path. It shows how everyday life, crafts and education are deeply entangled with the material cultural heritage of the city, although both heavily damaged by the war. Within this framework the rescue and development activities carried out since 2020 by Marina Pucci (Unifi-SAGAS) at the National Museum of Aleppo.

The exhibition then takes the visitor out of the city towards important archaeological sites (Tell ‘Ain Dara) and, through a landscape of olive trees and villages with beehive mudbrick houses, reaches out Tell Afis, the excavation site of a long standing expedition led by Stefania Mazzoni who, in 2021 and 2022, has come back with Candida Felli (Unifi-SAGAS) for rescuing and new musealization of the archaeological materials from the site.

The photos on exhibit are works of professional photographers and caricaturists, as Edar, still active in Aleppo, journalists as Roj Mousa, first based in ‘Afrin and now in Germany, and Italian archaeologists, expert in photography and active in the Missions for the safeguard of the archaeological heritage of the site of Tell Afis and of the collection of the National Museum of Aleppo.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation recognizes and supports, through DGDP – Office VI, the two archaeological Missions directed by Prof. Candida Felli (Tell Afis) and Prof. Marina Pucci (Aleppo) in Syria for the year 2022.

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