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#YEMEM :Over 4,250 stolen #Yemeni_artifacts sold in six countries.
Al-Hodhod Center for Archaeological Studies organized on Thursday in the capital Sanaa a special event to celebrate the issuance of the report “Yemen’s Archaeological Memory between Smuggling and
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Westernization”

During the event, the center released a report documenting the theft of #Yemeni_antiquities and their sale in international auctions.

The center stated that more than 4,265 smuggled artifacts were sold in six countries: the #US through five auctions,
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#Britain through four auctions, #France through 3 auctions, two auctions in the #Zionist entity and an auction for #Germany and the #Netherlands.

It indicated that the number of pieces sold and displayed during the period of aggression amounted to more than 2,610 pieces.
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The #US ranked first with 2,167 artifacts, then the Netherlands, and the #Zionist entity in third place with 501 artifacts.

The center pointed out that the number of artifacts sold during the period of aggression against #Yemen amounted to 2,523, with an estimated value
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of 12 million dollars.

It pointed out that among the pieces monitored by the report were pieces whose price reached more than 800 thousand dollars, such as a manuscript dating back to the fifteenth century.

The Hodhod Center pointed out that the preliminary statistics
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for the models of artifacts included seven international museums, which included 1,384 artifacts.