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The Louvre helps Syrian museums restore antiquities.

His mother is on the board of Questers, an international organization based in Philadelphia that helps preserve and restore antiquities, buildings, and historic sites.

They also pledged to provide assistance to their beleaguered Iraqi colleagues in restoring damaged antiquities.

Patrizi's early mastery of Greek and his interest in assembling a library of classical Greek manuscripts (Muccillo 1993) places him well within the tradition of seeking to restore the legacy of antiquity as a precondition for moving ahead to a "new" era.

He said that he and other museum officials and archaeologists had already held meetings to explore what must be done "to help the Baghdad museum and Iraqi's antiquities authorities to restore themselves".

While Justinian took action to rebuild the Baths, he could not recreate or restore the statues or the antiquities that were lost in 532.

Although it's not Schiff's purpose to present us with a feminist revision of a life plucked from antiquity, in order to "restore" Cleopatra — to see her at all — one must strip away an "encrusted myth" created by those for whom "citing her sexual prowess was evidently less discomfiting than acknowledging her intellectual gifts".

Late last year the antiquities board began a project to restore the ancient center of Kifl, with the aim of earning a coveted designation as a World Heritage site by Unesco, joining three other places in Iraq: Hatra, Samarra and Ashur.

The director of antiquities for southern Egypt, Sabry Abdel Aziz, said that an Egyptian-Polish restoration team, which started in 1960 to restore the Hatshepsut temple near the town of Luxor 320 miles south of Cairo, had completed its work.

PAGE A22 Hunt for Iraq's Antiquities Experts from many of the world's great museums pledged to help catalog and recover antiquities stolen from Iraq and to help Iraqis restore damaged artifacts.

The ʿAẓm Palace (Bayt al-ʿAẓm), originally the residence of the governor of Ḥamāh (and later Damascus), Asʿad Paşa al-ʿAẓm, was restored by the Syrian Department of Antiquities but was damaged in fighting in 1982.