Editing Monument (section)

== Protection and preservation ==
The term is often used to describe any structure that is a significant and legally protected historic work, and many countries have equivalents of what is called in [[United Kingdom]] legislation a [[Scheduled Monument]], which often include relatively recent buildings constructed for residential or industrial purposes, with no thought at the time that they would come to be regarded as "monuments".

Until recently, it was customary for [[archaeologist]]s to study large monuments and pay less attention to the everyday lives of the societies that created them. New ideas about what constitutes the [[archaeological record]] have revealed that certain legislative and theoretical approaches to the subject are too focused on earlier definitions of monuments. An example has been the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Scheduled Ancient Monument]] laws.

Other than municipal or national government that protecting the monuments in their jurisdiction, there are institutions dedicated on the efforts to protect and preserve monuments that considered to possess special natural or cultural significance for the world, such as [[UNESCO]]'s [[World Heritage Site]] programme<ref>{{cite web|title=World Heritage|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/about/|work=unesco.org}}</ref> and [[World Monuments Fund]].<ref name="WMF" />

Cultural monuments are also considered to be the memory of a community and are therefore particularly at risk in the context of modern asymmetrical warfare. The enemy's cultural heritage is to be sustainably damaged or even destroyed. In addition to the national protection of cultural monuments, international organizations (cf. [[UNESCO World Heritage]], [[Blue Shield International]]) therefore try to protect cultural monuments.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15207&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html|title=UNESCO Legal Instruments: Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1999}}</ref><ref>Roger O’Keefe, Camille Péron, Tofig Musayev, Gianluca Ferrari "Protection of Cultural Property. Military Manual." UNESCO, 2016, S. 73ff.</ref><ref>''UNESCO Director-General calls for stronger cooperation for heritage protection at the Blue Shield International General Assembly.'' UNESCO, 13 September 2017.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theblueshield.org/what-we-do/blue-shield-international/blue-shield-missions/|title=Blue Shield Missions|website=Blue Shield International|access-date=2020-03-23|archive-date=2020-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408124101/https://theblueshield.org/what-we-do/blue-shield-international/blue-shield-missions/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Recently, more and more monuments are being preserved digitally (in 3D models) through organisations as [[CyArk]].<ref>[http://www.slashgear.com/cyark-to-digitally-scan-500-world-monuments-in-5-years-22302676/ CyArk preserving monuments digitally]. slashgear.com. October 22, 2013</ref>