The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Archaeological Buildings

(Hunting Baths in Leptis Magna as a Model)

Abstract

Human activities are the most important sources of environmental pollution through what they cause to an imbalance in environmental elements. Environmental pollution poses a major threat to archaeological buildings, leading to accelerated corrosion of archaeological buildings and their cracking and sometimes collapse. The problem of environmental pollutants has become a serious problem for archaeological buildings and... Efforts to preserve them and their safety conditions from the dangers caused by environmental pollutants have become necessary to monitor these buildings at different periods to protect them from the effects of environmental pollution. One of the sources of environmental pollutants is natural pollution, which is caused by natural phenomena such as earthquakes, storms, and floodsIndustrial pollution is what is caused by factories and various means of transportation. In this paper, we try to review the impact of environmental pollution on the fishing baths in the city of Labdah, as one of the archaeological buildings, through the impact of environmental pollution resulting from chemical pollution, air pollution, marine pollution, biological pollution, and soil pollution.