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The revolution in Libya four years ago toppled Moimar Gaddafi. It also led to hopes for a cultural revolution.

But violence has increased, any cultural revolution is on hold, and Libya's world-renowned archaeological sites, as well as its scientists, need protection.

That's the conclusion of Savino Delarnia, director of the archaeological mission in the Sahara

at the Sapienza University of Rome. He made his points in a commentary in the journal Nature.

Delarnia has worked in Libya since 1990, studying, for example, 9,000-year-old wall art that

depicts crocodiles and cattle. In addition to the

activities of indigenous people, the country's archaeological sites hold artifacts from ancient

Greek and Phoenician cultures. But the unrest has stopped work on these archaeological treasures.

The fighting is damaged historic mosques and tombs, and relics are being trafficked out of the country,

both for profit

and to support radical groups. De Lernia argues that international groups should fund local

research and continue training Libyan scientists in the hopes of a resumption of the cross-cultural

exchanges and scientific training that had been going on before the violence. Allowing Libyan

archaeology to die would be, he says,

quote, a missed opportunity for a generation of young Libyan archaeologists and a tragedy for

the safeguarding of monuments and sites of universal and outstanding value.

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