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“Eternal Sites: From Bamiyan to Palmyra,” an exhibition that calls attention to the rising threats to global heritage, has attracted large crowds to the Grand Palais in Paris. Credit Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
by Marlise Simons | Jan 5, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
PARIS — When ISIS was about to be driven out of the ancient city of Palmyra in March, Yves Ubelmann got a call from Syria’s director of antiquities to come over in a hurry. An architect by training, Mr. Ubelmann, 36, had worked in Syria before the country was engulfed...
