Donation: The Cyrene Conservation Initiative
Donation: The Cyrene Conservation Initiative
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One of the ancient world's most incredible sites is at risk of being completely destroyed.
Founded by Greek colonists in 631 BC on the Libyan coast, the beautiful city of Cyrene became an intellectual centre that shaped the classical world.
Eratosthenes worked here, calculating Earth's circumference in 240 BC with remarkable accuracy using only shadow angles and geometry. The philosopher Aristippus founded his school of pleasure-focused philosophy within the city's walls. The poet Callimachus produced 800 works that would later influence Catullus, Horace, and Vergil.
The archaeological remains tell the story of over 1,200 years of continuous occupation:
🏛️ Temple of Zeus — One of the largest Greek temples ever constructed, measuring 68.3 metres long by 30.4 metres wide. The structure featured columns nearly 2 metres in diameter, each capital weighing 17 tonnes. In scale, it rivalled both the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
⚱️ Sanctuary of Demeter — Twelve seasons of excavation by the University of Pennsylvania revealed over 4,500 terracotta votives spanning 800 years of continuous worship. Associated pottery from Athens, Corinth, Rhodes, and across the Greek world demonstrates the extensive trade networks that supported the city.
🪦 The Necropolis — Approximately 1,500 rock-cut tombs spread across 20 square kilometres, featuring painted Doric friezes and elaborate funeral architecture. The tombs date from the Archaic period onwards, providing a continuous record of burial practices across nearly a millennium.
🌿 The Silphium Trade — Cyrene grew wealthy exporting silphium, a medicinal plant so valuable it appeared on the city's coinage for three centuries. Worth its weight in silver, the plant's extinction around the 1st century AD marks the first recorded species loss in history.
Cyrene has been on UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. Storm Daniel dumped a metre of rain on the site in September 2023, flooding ancient structures and weakening foundations across multiple monument areas. Political instability following the 2011 revolution left the site vulnerable to systematic looting. In August 2013, bulldozers destroyed approximately 2 kilometres of the ancient necropolis, demolishing 1,200 burial vaults in a matter of days.
Your donation supports ASOR's Cyrene Conservation Initiative: emergency stabilisation of flood-damaged monuments, foundation shoring, drainage system repairs, and increased site security. This is practical conservation work protecting an irreplaceable piece of Mediterranean civilisation.
Cyrene urgently needs your help - please give anything that you can spare, no matter how little.
One of the ancient world's most incredible sites is at risk of being completely destroyed.
Founded by Greek colonists in 631 BC on the Libyan coast, the beautiful city of Cyrene became an intellectual centre that shaped the classical world.
Eratosthenes worked here, calculating Earth's circumference in 240 BC with remarkable accuracy using only shadow angles and geometry. The philosopher Aristippus founded his school of pleasure-focused philosophy within the city's walls. The poet Callimachus produced 800 works that would later influence Catullus, Horace, and Vergil.
The archaeological remains tell the story of over 1,200 years of continuous occupation:
🏛️ Temple of Zeus — One of the largest Greek temples ever constructed, measuring 68.3 metres long by 30.4 metres wide. The structure featured columns nearly 2 metres in diameter, each capital weighing 17 tonnes. In scale, it rivalled both the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
⚱️ Sanctuary of Demeter — Twelve seasons of excavation by the University of Pennsylvania revealed over 4,500 terracotta votives spanning 800 years of continuous worship. Associated pottery from Athens, Corinth, Rhodes, and across the Greek world demonstrates the extensive trade networks that supported the city.
🪦 The Necropolis — Approximately 1,500 rock-cut tombs spread across 20 square kilometres, featuring painted Doric friezes and elaborate funeral architecture. The tombs date from the Archaic period onwards, providing a continuous record of burial practices across nearly a millennium.
🌿 The Silphium Trade — Cyrene grew wealthy exporting silphium, a medicinal plant so valuable it appeared on the city's coinage for three centuries. Worth its weight in silver, the plant's extinction around the 1st century AD marks the first recorded species loss in history.
Cyrene has been on UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. Storm Daniel dumped a metre of rain on the site in September 2023, flooding ancient structures and weakening foundations across multiple monument areas. Political instability following the 2011 revolution left the site vulnerable to systematic looting. In August 2013, bulldozers destroyed approximately 2 kilometres of the ancient necropolis, demolishing 1,200 burial vaults in a matter of days.
Your donation supports ASOR's Cyrene Conservation Initiative: emergency stabilisation of flood-damaged monuments, foundation shoring, drainage system repairs, and increased site security. This is practical conservation work protecting an irreplaceable piece of Mediterranean civilisation.
Cyrene urgently needs your help - please give anything that you can spare, no matter how little.
One of the ancient world's most incredible sites is at risk of being completely destroyed.
Founded by Greek colonists in 631 BC on the Libyan coast, the beautiful city of Cyrene became an intellectual centre that shaped the classical world.
Eratosthenes worked here, calculating Earth's circumference in 240 BC with remarkable accuracy using only shadow angles and geometry. The philosopher Aristippus founded his school of pleasure-focused philosophy within the city's walls. The poet Callimachus produced 800 works that would later influence Catullus, Horace, and Vergil.
The archaeological remains tell the story of over 1,200 years of continuous occupation:
🏛️ Temple of Zeus — One of the largest Greek temples ever constructed, measuring 68.3 metres long by 30.4 metres wide. The structure featured columns nearly 2 metres in diameter, each capital weighing 17 tonnes. In scale, it rivalled both the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
⚱️ Sanctuary of Demeter — Twelve seasons of excavation by the University of Pennsylvania revealed over 4,500 terracotta votives spanning 800 years of continuous worship. Associated pottery from Athens, Corinth, Rhodes, and across the Greek world demonstrates the extensive trade networks that supported the city.
🪦 The Necropolis — Approximately 1,500 rock-cut tombs spread across 20 square kilometres, featuring painted Doric friezes and elaborate funeral architecture. The tombs date from the Archaic period onwards, providing a continuous record of burial practices across nearly a millennium.
🌿 The Silphium Trade — Cyrene grew wealthy exporting silphium, a medicinal plant so valuable it appeared on the city's coinage for three centuries. Worth its weight in silver, the plant's extinction around the 1st century AD marks the first recorded species loss in history.
Cyrene has been on UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. Storm Daniel dumped a metre of rain on the site in September 2023, flooding ancient structures and weakening foundations across multiple monument areas. Political instability following the 2011 revolution left the site vulnerable to systematic looting. In August 2013, bulldozers destroyed approximately 2 kilometres of the ancient necropolis, demolishing 1,200 burial vaults in a matter of days.
Your donation supports ASOR's Cyrene Conservation Initiative: emergency stabilisation of flood-damaged monuments, foundation shoring, drainage system repairs, and increased site security. This is practical conservation work protecting an irreplaceable piece of Mediterranean civilisation.
Cyrene urgently needs your help - please give anything that you can spare, no matter how little.
One of the ancient world's most incredible sites is at risk of being completely destroyed.
Founded by Greek colonists in 631 BC on the Libyan coast, the beautiful city of Cyrene became an intellectual centre that shaped the classical world.
Eratosthenes worked here, calculating Earth's circumference in 240 BC with remarkable accuracy using only shadow angles and geometry. The philosopher Aristippus founded his school of pleasure-focused philosophy within the city's walls. The poet Callimachus produced 800 works that would later influence Catullus, Horace, and Vergil.
The archaeological remains tell the story of over 1,200 years of continuous occupation:
🏛️ Temple of Zeus — One of the largest Greek temples ever constructed, measuring 68.3 metres long by 30.4 metres wide. The structure featured columns nearly 2 metres in diameter, each capital weighing 17 tonnes. In scale, it rivalled both the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
⚱️ Sanctuary of Demeter — Twelve seasons of excavation by the University of Pennsylvania revealed over 4,500 terracotta votives spanning 800 years of continuous worship. Associated pottery from Athens, Corinth, Rhodes, and across the Greek world demonstrates the extensive trade networks that supported the city.
🪦 The Necropolis — Approximately 1,500 rock-cut tombs spread across 20 square kilometres, featuring painted Doric friezes and elaborate funeral architecture. The tombs date from the Archaic period onwards, providing a continuous record of burial practices across nearly a millennium.
🌿 The Silphium Trade — Cyrene grew wealthy exporting silphium, a medicinal plant so valuable it appeared on the city's coinage for three centuries. Worth its weight in silver, the plant's extinction around the 1st century AD marks the first recorded species loss in history.
Cyrene has been on UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. Storm Daniel dumped a metre of rain on the site in September 2023, flooding ancient structures and weakening foundations across multiple monument areas. Political instability following the 2011 revolution left the site vulnerable to systematic looting. In August 2013, bulldozers destroyed approximately 2 kilometres of the ancient necropolis, demolishing 1,200 burial vaults in a matter of days.
Your donation supports ASOR's Cyrene Conservation Initiative: emergency stabilisation of flood-damaged monuments, foundation shoring, drainage system repairs, and increased site security. This is practical conservation work protecting an irreplaceable piece of Mediterranean civilisation.
Cyrene urgently needs your help - please give anything that you can spare, no matter how little.
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