While Europe grapples with financial crisis, it is also fighting to preserve its history.
While Europe grapples with financial crisis, it is also fighting to preserve its history.
“The region is facing cultural calamity,” the Washington Post reports in a feature that considers the unusual measures being enlisted to fight the battle.
Among the examples, listed by reporter Ariana Eunjung Cha:
Writes Cha:
Government officials acknowledge that some of the deals they are striking are not ideal. But the officials are in a race against time. … No one wants to have another Pompeii, where in October a portion of the wall surrounding the ancient city — frozen in time since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the 1st century — collapsed in front of crowds of tourists after it was weakened by water damage and climbing ivy.