Dr. Ahmed Kzzo presented about the project at the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East #ICAANE held in #Copenhagen last week.
The congress is one of the most important events related to Middle Eastern cultural heritage and archaeology.
The course covered a range of topics, including dealing with antiquities-trafficking cases, forgeries and replicas of cultural property, and how to repatriate cultural property.
For the first anniversary of the reparation of nine artifacts, we are providing some information on the items and their cultural and historic significance.
Astarte or ʿAshtart is the goddess of sexual love and fertility and is associated with war. The goddess was one of the most important goddesses in the ancient Near East and has been returned to #Jordan after years of investigation in #USA about the legality of ownership.
The nine returned artifacts reflect the cultural and religious richness of #Jordan. From these artifacts are two tombstones with Aramaic inscriptions, from Zoara (the biblical Zoar), dated back to 500 AD