"Heritage in Danger. The Centro Scavi Torino and the Requalification of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage" opens on September 7, 2016. The exhibit is organized by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Washington, in collaboration with the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino (Research Archaeological Excavations Center of Turin - Crast) and will be presented by Carlo Lippolis, Crast President and director of the Italian archaeological expedition in Tulul al Baqarat.

CRAST has been active in Iraq for over 50 years, and has never interrupted research and interventions to protect Iraqi cultural heritage in the country. Immediately after the looting of the Baghdad museum (2003), CRAST started on a redevelopment project for some of the main rooms of the museum and initiated some training projects.

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