Preserving and protecting archaeological collections stored in the storage space of the National Museum in Damascus A field study

Abstract

As a result of the circumstances that the Syrian Arab Republic witnessed in early 2011, including security tension and attempts to steal cultural heritage, archaeological collections were evacuated from all museums in the Syrian Arab Republic as part of a preventive security plan aimed at protecting them from the danger of armed groups who targeted Syrian cultural heritage with the aim of obliterating them. The identity of the Syrian

people, and the erasure of their cultural roots, and most of them were transferred to the National Museum in Damascus, such as the collections of the Deir el-Zor Museum, Quneitra Museum, Palmyra Museum, and Daraa Museum, and were preserved in its storage space .

This research attempts to study the process of preserving archaeological collections arriving at the storage space of the National Museum in Damascus, with the aim of determining the efficiency and effectiveness of these procedures in protecting and preserving them from the natural dangers facing them inside the storage space, while attaching a group of pictures that help the reader to understand the subject of the research