(MENAFN) Director General for Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hammoud, on Monday warned of the dangers of the Turkish assaults on Afrin which is one of the Syrian richest areas in artifacts and monuments.
''Mount Semaan includes three archaeological reserves listed on UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s list and all are in danger because they are near to Afrin area,'' Hammoud said, stressing that ''the Turkish regime's destruction of the Ain Dara Temple was a barbaric act, and a completion of the plan led by this regime to destroy the Syrian cultural heritage.''
He called on the international organizations and all those concerned in cultural affair to convict this aggression and intervene to stop the damage of cultural heritage in Syria which is an essential part of the world human and cultural heritage.
"The importance of the temple lies in that it is the only discovered one that represents the Aramaic civilization in Syria, where the Arameans built it during the first millennium BC," Hammoud said.
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