{"id":270759,"date":"2021-06-09T23:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/museums-struggle-to-preserve-yemens-past\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:14:47","slug":"museums-struggle-to-preserve-yemens-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/museums-struggle-to-preserve-yemens-past\/","title":{"rendered":"#Museums struggle to preserve Yemen’s past"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Museums struggle to preserve Yemen’s past<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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SANAA \u2013 A bronze statue of the main god of the kingdom of Saba, located in what is now the Yemeni province of Marib, lies in a dark and fortified room of the Sanaa National Museum.<\/p>\n

The piece was made by a man named Hawtar Athat in the first half of the sixth century BC. It has been lucky enough to survive the latest\u00a0war\u00a0in Yemen. Many other artefacts have not.<\/p>\n

The Sanaa museum miraculously escaped years of bombing by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in their\u00a0war\u00a0against the Houthi group.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther areas around the museum were targeted and that led to the destruction of some artefacts and to cracks in the walls of the building\u00a0itself,\u201d said Ibrahim al-Hadi, the museum\u2019s director.<\/p>\n

Most of the collection was moved to safe rooms in the museum when the Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Statues are seen at the yard of the National Museum in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 2, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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Collections of Arabian swords, rifles and helmets, some decorated with gold, are packed in boxes and covered with sheets. Two bronze lions from the pagan kingdom of Qataban, restored at the Louvre in 2008, are snarling at the dark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis storeroom is a model,\u201d said Abdullah Ishaq, an expert working with the museum. \u201cIt has been set up with scientific, modern and international standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Yemen\u2019s\u00a0museums, the richest in the Arabian peninsula, are a reminder of the toll that\u00a0war\u00a0has taken on the country\u2019s cultural heritage, often eclipsed by civilian casualties and the dire humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n

In the disputed city of Taiz, nature has combined with conflict to leave the historic National Museum building in ruins.<\/p>\n

Charred manuscript<\/a>s, burned shelves and shattered glass are scattered inside. Acacia trees have taken root and helped to tear down the walls.<\/p>\n

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Museum staffers walk at the yard of the National Museum in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 2, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cShelling destroyed the buildings \u2026 the collection was looted and fires burned down storerooms,\u201d said Ramzi al-Damini, the Taiz museum director.<\/p>\n

The Yemeni General<\/a> Authority for Antiquities and\u00a0Museums\u00a0has started working with the Global Heritage Fund to restore parts of the buildings.<\/p>\n

But the museum has already lost around 70% of\u00a0its\u00a0collection, even though some stolen artifacts have been recovered from local markets and volunteers have brought back other pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that many of those articles have been smuggled outside Taiz and even abroad. It is not easy to get them out of Yemen, only powerful people with international connections can do that,\u201d said Ahmed Jassar, director of antiquities in the Taiz museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A staffer shows stone manuscripts at the National Museum in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 2, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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