{"id":1509,"date":"2023-11-24T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2023-11-24T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:16:50","slug":"damage-alert-yerevan-gate-cemetery-shusha-shushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"DAMAGE ALERT: Yerevan Gate cemetery (Shusha\/Shushi)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3 bulldozers carved a road through an historic burial ground in Shusha\/i known as the Yerevan Gate cemetery. Nestled amidst the trees are at least 78 Armenian-inscribed tombstones dating between 1802 and 1913. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0SocMedDuo-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dense forest obscures the cemetery. We used maps and publications of Shusha\/i to trace its borders. It\u2019s unclear how many tombstones were damaged, but research shows that burials covered the area (supporting materials in forthcoming Report #6). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates1-600x420.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tombstones of women and men, young and old, tell stories of kinship, occupation, faith, status, and more. And they ask that the deceased may rest in peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates2.jpg 680w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SH.105-0YerevanGates2-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fifth Armenian cemetery impacted since Nov. 2020, after the destruction of Mets Tagher and Sghnakh, and damage to cemeteries in N. Shushi and near Vazgenashen\/Hajisamly. Development cloaks a slow project to remove the ancestors of Shushi\u2019s Armenian inhabitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3 bulldozers carved a road through an historic burial ground in Shusha\/i known as the Yerevan Gate cemetery. Nestled amidst the trees are at least 78 Armenian-inscribed tombstones dating between 1802 and 1913. Dense forest obscures the cemetery. We used maps and publications of Shusha\/i to trace its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}