The nature of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Eritrea (around Dahlak Island and Massawa) includes ancient wrecks of modern cargo and warships, fishing boats, airplanes, floating dry docks, T-55 tanks, cars, bombs (detonated and non-detonated), and different armaments. Eritrea’s maritime environment is rich both in marine biodiversity and underwater cultural heritages. Due to its strategic location, […]
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BY UNESCO On 19 February 2018, UNESCO joined the Commission of Culture and Sports of Eritrea and high-level government officials and community representatives to open a two-week workshop through 28 February as part of the UNESCO project: ‘Strengthening the capacities of Eritrea for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage’, which is […]
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Italian and Eritrean scholars held academic meeting to exchange experiences, share research findings, and refine research projects about the preservation of Eritrean cultural heritage BY DR. SALEH MOHAMUD IDRIS | SHABAIT From 12 to 13 December 2017, the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in Italy organized a two-day workshop that brought Eritrean and Italian scholars together […]
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BY ALEM FISSHATZION Asmara is the city of my dreams. This article is not about Asmara, nor is it about the history of the city. Rather, it is about an exciting period of my experiences growing up in The City of Cultural Heritage as a schoolboy in the 1960s.
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BY UNESCO On 3 April 2017, the Eritrean Commissioner of Culture and Sports, Ambassador Zemede Tecle, opened a two-week capacity-building workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage. This activity is part of the project “Strengthening the capacities of Eritrea for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage”, financed by the […]
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By The EU Delegation in Eritrea, History will be revived in Asmara, Africa’s modernist city; one of the astonishing, cutting edge architecture and art avenues cities. The European Union will contribute supporting the conservation of Asmara’s unique cultural and architectural heritage. In the framework of the EU programme for Local Authorities, the EU Delegation to […]
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