2000 Year Old Ruins Ransacked
Ransack & Destruction of the Archeological Site, a Great Loss of Yemen History ?
January18,2008-The archeologist team in Al Osaibah site was surprised to realize that the discovered archeological grave was free of all its contents which were under police protection.
Official sources said that a number of armed men attacked the site late at night after all police security personnel left the site except for one car with 6 policemen. The armed men surrounded grave, broke the two coffins and ransacked their contents.
The archeologists said that the crime committed yesterday made Yemen lose evidence of great ancient civilization that traces back to the Sheba era , 2000 years ago.
The grave included coffins containing gold, metal and bronze materials of two or three corpses which are likely to trace back to the family that ruled Sheba and Thi Raidan in the first three centuries.
