High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

Even tourism, a vital source of preservation funding, is straining fragile monuments in many World Heritage sites of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The loss ...

Now, it is on the edge of disappearing forever, the reins being handed to an entity whose interests are distant and indifferent to our city’s unique culture. The loss would be catastrophic.