Sulaymaniyah Asayish arrests gang for stealing valuable historical books

Relics‌‌ 12:30 PM - 2021-06-28

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The Asayish forces in Sulaymaniyah managed to arrest a gang for stealing antiquities and also seized two ancient books.

 

The Sulaymaniyah Asayish Directorate stated on Monday that as part of their efforts to prevent trafficking in all kinds of antiquities, the Asayish forces arrested a gang for stealing antiquities.

 

The Asayish also seized two ancient historical books which were in criminals' possession.

 

The gang was composed of 5 individuals who were all arrested after all accurate information was collected on them.

 

The valuable books that were seized belong to thousands of years ago and are worth thousands of dollars. They belong to the two religions of Judaism and Christianity and were written on animal skin with gold water.

 

According to the Asayish the gang had smuggled the two books from southern Iraq to the city of Sulaymaniyah and was planning to smuggle them out of the Kurdistan Region.

 

It is noteworthy that the Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast majority of Iraqi Christians are indigenous Eastern Aramaic-speaking ethnic Assyrians who are the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient Assyria, and follow the Syriac Christian tradition.

 

While, the history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities.

 

The Jewish community of what is termed in Jewish sources "Babylon" or "Babylonia" included Ezra the scribe, whose return to Judea in the late 6th century BC is associated with significant changes in Jewish ritual observance and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in "Babylonia", identified with modern Iraq.

 

 

 

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