Blown doors and windows, shards of glass littering the ground, security system and elevators out of service: the Beirut National Museum was damaged by the gigantic explosion that occurred on August 4 in the port.
3 kilometers as the crow flies.
To secure the rooms and their collections as quickly as possible, as well as the offices and adjoining storerooms - for the time being only protected by the guards as well as by a cordon of the General Security in arms - a specialist in the Louvre was appointed. .
He has been at work since Wednesday evening.
Julien Chanteau, French in love with the country of the Cedar to the point of residing there and archaeologist in the Department of Antiquities of the Near East, was appointed to carry out the repairs.
The General Directorate of Antiquities of Lebanon (DGA) has indeed accepted the assistance of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (Aliph, created in 2017 and based in Geneva) for this project that it considers.
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