After restoring the Ancient Shrine of Cyrus, Turkish Hatay’s Directorate of Islamic Endowments has turned the shrine into a mosque.
The site of the shrine and the surrounding ruined castle located in Sharran subdistrict, northeast of Afrin, had been randomly excavated, bulldozed by pro-Ankara factions in their relentless search for valuable archaeological finds.
Having been given free rein by Turkish occupation authorities, pro-Turkish factions have left no stone unturned unearthing antiquities which are later sold in Turkish markets for huge sums of money.
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Cyrus or Prophet Hori, dates back to several ancient civilizations, the oldest of which was the Hellenistic period around 280 BCE.
The site was systematically burrowed and leveled with bulldozers and excavators and sophisticated electronic equipment to detect the location of artifacts.