For us, these sites have a spiritual, almost religious feel to them. It's almost sacrilege to deface them. |
It's very endangered. Populations are rising so fast, and sites that were in wild, uninhabited areas have development growing around them. So you have graffiti, the single biggest threat. |
The most barbaric thing we've ever seen was in Morocco, where thousands and thousands of 5,000-year-old engravings are bashed and broken off and taken out of the country. It's an organized trade. |