The near-east specialist from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, Mark al-Taweel, said that the antiquities looted by terrorist organizations, on top of which ISIS terrorists are being sold in the markets of Britain and other European states.
Al-Taweel added in a report issued by the British Newspaper of The Guardian that terrorists work through systematic networks on looting these antiquities and smuggling them to Europe without any questioning or punishment.
Tracking the movement of the Syrian antiquities shows that they reach the shops and antiquity auctions directly in London and other capitals, al-Taweel said, clarifying that the looted statues, pots and bones come from certain sites in Syria and Iraq.
He pointed out that the European antique dealers avoid giving clear answers on the sources of the antiquities they sell and they do not have legal documents on how they get them.
In March, British archeologists discovered more than a hundred antiquities that were looted by ISIS terrorists from Syria and reached the British markets for funding the terrorist crimes committed by ISIS.
source : abna
