Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya. Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie. Archéologie subaquatique Featuring multiple objects and documents

Featuring multiple objects and documents

the modern reader of the Metamorphoses is placed in the same situation as the ancient reader

Lucian also mischievously revisits traditional mythology

the Ministry of Culture and Communication will celebrate

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Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya. Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie. Archéologie subaquatique Featuring multiple objects and documentsFrom 2012 to 2016, the rebel held suburb of Daraya endured a relentless siege imposed by Damascus. Four years of descent into hell, punctuated by barrel bombings, chemical gas attacks, and submission through starvation. Faced with the violence of Bashar al Assad's regime, some forty young Syrian revolutionaries took the unusual step of exhuming thousands of books buried beneath the ruins and gathering them in a clandestine library, hidden away in a