A heavy black basalta steel decorated with the eagle and the Greek log in the town of Manbaj, east of Syria’s Aleppo, has been detected. It has a eagle in which the wrap is mounted in the tallone with the open wings. Archaeologists believe that she is about 2,000 2,000 years old and is either a fun steel of the Roman era grave.
The stone was first seen by a local resident behind the cardamom wholesale market. He reported this to the Museum and the Directorate of Antiquities, who sent a team to dig and recover the steel.
Civil war has done a lot of damage to Syria’s cultural patriotism. According to the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, about a million ancient samples have returned to 2011 and 2019, and more than 700 archaeological sites have suffered a lot.
Manbaj became a stronghold of antiquities during smuggling during the war. Under the Assad regime, the excavation of the treasury was a controlled cronism system, and when the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took control of the city in 2012, the lack of surveillance led to the spread of raw, unorganized looting works. ISIS launched a licensing system when it took control in 2014, until anyone was allowed to dig antiquities on their land until they obtained the first permit. What they discovered was made of precious metals or ceramic finders, they had to pay a portion of their price to the ISIS government. Any samples that they were found with pictures of the statistics had to hand over ISIS to destruction.
When the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled ISIS in 2016, its leadership was involved in excavation directly or by proxy, implemented informal protection rackets, where locals were provided with security in exchange for antiquities, and they were allowed to lose their importance. ۔
It was only during the SDF principle that Manbij became an open market for smuggling antiques. The stolen samples of Base Spilled Palmyra, Rakqa and Hassaka were shifted to Manbaj, where they will be ready for illegal export to border countries and the rest of the world.
Steel has been transferred to the city’s old bathroom site where it will be kept safe for further study to Aleppo.
