Latakia-SANA
The reality of Syrian antiquities in light of the terrorist war on Syria and the destruction and damage it left behind to obliterate our cultural heritage and the measures taken to protect it.
The Director General of Antiquities and Museums, Dr. Nazir Awad, reviewed the systematic and deliberate sabotage of the Syrian cultural heritage supported by external parties to target the national identity of the Syrians. Neighboring.
Awad referred to the measures taken by the Directorate and the competent authorities to transport many artifacts in the targeted areas with the help of the Syrian Arab Army, through which many were saved, in addition to moving at the international level and launching the urgent safeguarding project for the Syrian cultural heritage in cooperation with UNESCO in 2014 in Paris.
Dr. Ibrahim Khairbek, Director of Lattakia Antiquities, spoke in his intervention about antiquities as a heritage of all mankind and the impact of the war on them, reviewing some of the precautionary measures taken to protect archaeological sites and museums.
As for the researcher, Dr. Bassam Jamous, he focused in his intervention (Archaeology and War, Concerns of the Present and Challenges of the Future) that the war today against Syria and our Arab homeland is a cultural war, a war of identity, heritage and falsification of facts.. Where the systematic change carried out by the Zionist entity to the cultural identity of Jerusalem and Palestine is a glaring example as The American invasion of Iraq and the accompanying looting and destruction of Iraqi antiquities.
For his part, Dr. Hammam Saad, Director of Archaeological Excavations and Studies, drew pictures and figures to the reality of antiquities in Syria before and after the terrorist war in the sites of Ebla, Mari and Palmyra.
Head of the Arab Writers Union branch, Dr. Muhammad Basal, referred to the role of thinkers, writers and archaeologists by defining the first goals of the war on Syria, which is to obliterate its civilization, which constitutes the center of civilizations on the face of the earth, to make it easier for the Zionist entity to declare its racist state in this region.
The symposium also included a legal intervention on the local and international legal framework for the protection of cultural heritage presented by the expert in archaeological law Ayman Suleiman, while Dr. Ahmed Deeb, Director of the Al-Basel Center for Archaeological Research and Training reviewed the Syrian experience in protecting and preserving heritage in light of the war.
Fatima Nasser
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