AGI - About 30 thousand archaeological finds have been evacuated from the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Eastern Syria during the summers of 2014 and 2015, while the city was in danger of falling into the hands of ISIS. Maamoun Abdulkarim, professor of Archaeology and History at the University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, reconstructed the operation in a study published in the magazine Museum Management and Curatorship. At the time Abdulkarim…
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AGI - About 30 thousand archaeological finds have been evacuated from the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Eastern Syria during the summers of 2014 and 2015, while the city was in danger of falling into the hands of ISIS. Maamoun Abdulkarim, professor of Archaeology and History at the University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, reconstructed the operation in a study published in the magazine Museum Management and Curatorship. At the time Abdulkarim…