Ongoing from March 2011, the civil war in Syria engulfed not only tens of thousands of victims among the people. Its victims have also become invaluable cultural assets of the country. On its territory there were more than 10,000 monuments with great value from the point of view of history and science – including 40 ancient Syrian sludge from I-VI century.
To protect them, UNESCO inscribed particularly valuable objects on the heritage list endangered cultural annihilation. Among them: the Old City of Damascus, Bosra and Aleppo, the ancient Roman ruins of Palmyra, and the castles of the Crusaders: Krak des Chevaliers and the Citadel of Salah Ed-Din.
As demonstrated time – it was not a sufficient protection. Last year, Palmyra, after taking her by the militant Islamic State, has been mined and is systematically destroyed: three tombs were demolished tower, temple Baalszamina, ancient triumphal arch. He was murdered Khaled al Asaad, a Syrian archaeologist, former director of the museum of Palmyra, from which the jihadists want to extract information, which are hidden the most valuable historical buildings.
Fragments systematically grabionych ancient archaeological sites – cemeteries and monumental architectural structures into the hands of traffickers, who often sell them to foreign buyers.
Guide to the world of illegal trafficking monuments is Inigo Gilmore, an investigative journalist. It shows scenes of such transactions and the people who stand behind them. The next stages of the investigation in Bulgaria, Turkey (one of the main routes metastatic), London … Many of the images were taken by a hidden camera.
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