Archaeologists risked their lives to save 30,000 treasures from ISIS terrorists during the Syrian Civil W - The Times of India
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- علماء آثار خاطروا بحياتهم لإنقاذ 30,000 قطعة أثرية من إرهابيي داعش خلال الحرب الأهلية السورية - صحيفة تايمز أوف إنديا
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- Archaeologists risked their lives to save 30,000 treasures from ISIS terrorists during the Syrian Civil W - The Times of India
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Archaeologists can be just as passionate about their finds as scientists are about their inventions. After all, they each live for their passion for objects of time. Now, a new study has revealed how archaeologists risked their lives to save thousands of historic treasures from imminent destruction by Islamic State terrorists.Syrian archaeologists rescued around 30,000 "priceless" artefacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum as the city faced imminent capture by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh, in 2014 and 2015. Situated on the banks of the Euphrates River near Iraq's …source ↗