Archaeologists Risked Their Lives to Save 30,000 Treasures from ISIS Terrorists—New Study Shows How
Archaeologists evacuated about 30,000 artifacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Syria as ISIS advanced on the city in 2014 and 2015. A new study by Maamoun Abdulkarim, who led Syria's antiquities directorate, describes the operation, which moved the objects through a narrow corridor to the military airport. Around 300,000 museum items were relocated nationwide by 2017.
Source: Archaeologists Risked Their Lives to Save 30,000 Treasures from ISIS Terrorists—New Study Shows How — Good News Network
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