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In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Jihad Abu Kahrlah, an archaeologist at the National Museum in Damascus, Syria, works on preserving artifacts rescued from the Daraa Museum in southern Syria. Faced with the Islamic State group onslaught and destruction by looters, Syrian antiquities authorities succeeded in evacuating hundreds of thousands of artifacts from museums around the country to safety in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Jihad Abu Kahrlah, an archaeologist at the National Museum in Damascus, Syria, works on preserving artifacts rescued from the Daraa Museum in southern Syria. Faced with the Islamic State group onslaught and destruction by looters, Syrian antiquities authorities succeeded in evacuating hundreds of thousands of artifacts from museums around the country to safety in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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