September 13, 2024
Looters strip Sudanese museums of priceless antiquities
Ancient sculptures are displayed at Sudan’s national museum in Khartoum June 25, 2008. — AFP PORT SUDAN: Sudan’s priceless archaeological heritage is being stripped from museums, with looters loading statuettes and fragments of ancient palaces onto trucks, smuggling them out of the war-torn country and selling them online. More than a year of war between rival generals has killed tens of thousands of people, forced millions more from their homes and left the country’s precious antiquities at the mercy of bandits. On Thursday, Unesco, the United Nations’ cultural body, said “the threat to culture appears to have reached an unprecedented


