The ATHAR Project | Investigation

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Across the ravaged towns and cities of Syria, looters are trafficking the country's rich reserves of priceless antiquities. Amr Al-Azm and Katie A. Paul, two US-based academics, became unlikely spymasters on a mission to hold the looters to account. Standing in their way are ISIS militants, a hostile regime and the world's largest social network. Vanessa Kirby tells a powerful story of preservation in the face of destruction. What's YOUR cause? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.4	Officially, I never crossed the border.
0:36.8	They would have that. There's no way for me to go in.
0:40.0	And obviously, I can go in from the regime side because, you know, I would be arrested.
0:45.6	This is True Spies.
0:47.6	Episode 65, The Athar Project.
0:58.8	Location, manbeach, northwestern Syria.
1:02.0	A civil war is raging.
1:04.0	Thousands flee the country in search of refuge.
1:08.0	An out in the sandy vastness of the landscape.
1:11.2	The distant echoes of explosions,
1:13.6	mingle with an insistent chip, chip, chip.
1:18.4	The sound of digging.
1:20.8	And the diggers are being watched.
1:24.8	Our team leader would cross over from Turkey into the manbeach area,
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