Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and World War II

Antonino Crisà, Ph.D. (2015), University of Leicester, is currently Assistant Professor of Humanities at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. He has published substantial articles and two books on Sicilian archaeology, numismatics and museums, including 'When Archaeology Meets Communities' (Archaeopress, 2018).

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Introduction

 Antonino Crisà



1 Italy 1940–45: Allied Reports on Antiquities

 Carlotta Coccoli

2 ‘Quartered in the Midst of the Greatest Collection in All Italy’: Lessons from the Museo Nazionale di Napoli in Wartime

 Nigel Pollard

3 War and the Antiquities at Risk in Sicily: a Case Study on the Artillery Position at the Polyphemus Cave in Milazzo (Messina, 1943)

 Antonino Crisà

4 Memories of War: the Battle of Troina, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Sicily

 Flaminia Bartolini and Simon Stoddart

5 Bridges at War and Conservation of Cultural Heritage: a Case Study from Italy

 Germano Germanò

6 The Antiquities in Attica during Conflict: the Impact of World War II

 Chrysanthi Tsouli

7 Protecting Museum Antiquities during World War II: Photographs from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, with a Story to Tell

 Maria Chidiroglou

8 Kerameikos: a Significant Archaeological Site of Athens and Its Museum during World War II (1940–44)

 Fotios Katevas

9 Never-Never Land under Attack: Axis War Damage to Cretan Antiquities

 Jan Driessen

10 Rock(s) around the Bunker: the Destruction of the Archaeological Heritage of France during World War II

 Jean-Pierre Legendre and Laurent Olivier

11 From ‘War Junk’ to ‘Isn’t This a Treasure!’: Processes of Heritagization of the Material Remains of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland

 Suzie Thomas

Conclusion

 Antonino Crisà



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