Zenobia Stealing

A TV documentary tracked down an ancient artefact which was believed to have been stolen from an Arbatan Tomb, a town in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The artefact was one among twenty-two pieces which Interpol claimed had been lost sometime between 2014 and 2015. The investigators were able to track the piece with the help of a Syrian merchant living in Turkey, who also showed the team a number of other artefact pieces that he had smuggled out of the country and planned to ship to Canada. Using secret cameras, the reporting team were able to show the Syrian antique smuggling process, from excavation to the smuggling routes which take goods across the border and into Turkey, Britain and Canada.