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Document Details : Title: Dialoguing with the Past Subtitle: Will Beirut's Past still Speak to the Future? Author(s): SEEDEN, Helga Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 13 Date: 2001-2002 Pages: 359-375 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.13.0.504508 Abstract : From 1993 on, UNESCO-sponsored and developer-funded urban archaeological excavations in Beirut opened up vast areas of the core of the city, retrieving huge quantities of archaeological material and rescuing invaluable information about this ancient and continuously occupied Mediterranean harbour town. As of 1998-1999, developer-funded models for a sensitive integration of some of the buried archaeology and more recent historical buildings have been created, with a novel approach to opening windows on the past within a vast new city centre. The entire project of archaeological integration would be able to respond to a very wide variety of demands and interests, centered around the quest for Beirut's rediscovered multi-layered past, its interrelationship with the present and significance for the future. |
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