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#Yemen
US-Saudi Aggression Deliberately Targeted Archaeological Sites, Facilitated Looting of Antiquities:

The Executive Director of ِAl-Hudhud Center for Archaeological Studies, Dr. Fahmy Al-Aghbari, confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression for seven years, has
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deliberately targeted archaeological sites with airstrikes and its mercenaries’ looting and smuggling artifacts.
Al-Aghbari said, in a statement to Almasirah, that the aggression targeted archaeological sites in which there could be no military forces,
#Yemeni_antiquities
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such as the Dhamar Historical Museum.
He added that the #UAE plays a major role in looting #Yemeni_antiquities antiquities, presenting them in as Emirati artifacts, as well as being a corridor for smuggling stolen Yemeni antiquities to deliver them to the #Zionist enemy.
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that the smuggling of #Yemeni_antiquities has been started since 2011 and increased in 2015 with the beginning of the aggression and unjust UN resolutions.

He explained that what was monitored of stolen and smuggled antiquities, the US acquired the largest share of them,
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with more than 2,167 antiquities sold inside the US.

He indicated that the list issued by the center is a starting point for the official judicial authorities to rely on in prosecuting the theft of #antiquities

Earlier, the center stated that more than 4,265 smuggled
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artifacts were sold in six countries: the US through five auctions, #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
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during the period of aggression amounted to more than 2,610 pieces. 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
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aggression against #Yemen  amounted to 2,523, with an estimated value 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
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century.

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

In 2021, #Yemen revealed that the Emirates stole hundreds of Yemeni archaeological artifacts,
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after it stole many Yemeni antiquities during the past years.

At the same time, the London-based Barakat Gallery offered a group of #Yemeni_artifacts for sale through its website.
According to the Barakat Gallery, the artifacts include statues, heads, and various shapes
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most of which are made of alabaster and date back to the Sabaean era. Their prices start at four thousand dollars, while the prices of some of them have been hidden.

The site confirmed that the antiquities offered for sale are located in several countries, most notably
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the #UAE and the #US, in addition to Britain, and they number at least 28 pieces, including statues, sculptures, and tablets with cuneiform writings in the Musnad script .