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How war has robbed Syria of its history

Clip: 5/19/2015 | 9m 18s

How war has robbed Syria of its history

There’s a battle being waged for Syria’s history, where four years of war have devastated cultural heritage sites and looting occurs by all sides of the conflict. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports on the flagrant destruction of relics, the big business of smuggling antiquities and what’s being done to stop it.

05/19/2015 | Rating NR

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