CHW is concerned about new military installations near historic sites in Aghdam&Martakert. Between April & July 2021, bunkers were dug into a historic Azerbaijani cemetery, near a mausoleum. They were recently expanded as indicated in an April 2023 image. In…
CHW has made a high-confidence assessment that a centuries-old cemetery in Lachin has been damaged due to construction. Road work encroached into the northeastern and southern areas of the cemetery between October 15, 2022 and April 29, 2023. We geolocated…
On April 28, 2023, Lori Khatchadourian, co-director of CHW, spoke at a UN panel on the “Prevention of Atrocity Crimes in the Digital Era” at the United Nations in New York City. The panel examined the challenges and opportunities presented…
CHW has concluded a year-long investigation into the treatment of Azerbaijani cultural heritage under Armenian control between the Nagorno-Karabakh wars. We used a vast trove of satellite imagery and other sources. Our findings paint a complex picture. Our unprecedented site-by-site…
The Cycladic Preservation Group recently posted a brief interview with CHW co-director Adam T. Smith.
An October 2022 OpEd by Adam T. Smith, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan on heritge forensics and cultural erasure in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan was named to the Best of Sapiens list for 2022.
The CHW team has published a new op-ed in the online magazine Sapiens entitled “Heritage Forensics Is Tackling Devastating New Forms of Cultural Erasure“.
