The president of Syria has hit a new low, exchanging culture for guns
As I have said on numerous occasions, antiquity selling on the black market is a huge problem that endangers peoples’ heritage and culture. People often loot sites in order to make a profit when times are chaotic. Some of these people are contract looters, while others are the poor and hungry who see few other options. War is my other pet peeve, resulting in the destruction of some of the greatest pieces of our past as people suppress opposing ideas or these sites get caught in the crossfire. While Syria undergoes its present civil uprising, it has become a free-for-all for both forms of destruction, with President Bashar al-Assad at the root of the problem.
