# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ7sK61DHX7
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-11T22:18:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

As Syria attempts to get back on its feet after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues. Staff at the museum became aware of the theft on Monday morning, November 10, when they saw that the door to the classical department had been broken. The heist comes after cultural heritage looting surged after the escape of the country’s former dictator, Bashar al-Assad, last December. 

Adnan Almohamad, an honorary research fellow at the University of London who studies archaeological heritage looting in Syria, speculated in an email to Hyperallergic that the theft could have been an inside job: “It appears that the operation was carried out by individuals with good knowledge of the Damascus Museum and the vulnerabilities that Syrian museums have faced for many years.”

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The National Museum of Damascus in Syria (Via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) 

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damascus, syria, roman, looting, sculptures, museum, heist

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