ABSTRACT
Historically, the fate and treatment of cultural property have often been important issues in both international wars and in many kinds of internal armed conflicts, such as civil, religious and liberation wars. The taking of important movable cultural symbols of invaded and conquered states and peoples as trophies of war (or merely for their economic value), and the defacing or destruction of their monuments as marks of victory, have been important parts of the culture of the waging of war for millennia: see, for example, the general historical reviews of cultural damage and destruction of Treue (1960: 32-40) and of Chamberlin (1983: 139-41).
