Heba Jouma, a conservator-restorer from the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria and a member of a Syrian restoration experts' team, works at the National Museum of Damascus in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 5, 2018. Heba Jouma works to bring back ancient features to the sculptures damaged by the Islamic State (IS) group. The IS group had stormed Palmyra twice during the more than seven-year-long war, destroying precious archeological sites, such as temples and tombs, and shattering sculptures into pieces in the ancient oasis city, which is registered by the UNESCO as a world heritage. After the war was over in Palmyra, the authorities brought in hundreds of damaged and fully-destroyed artifacts to the National Museum of Damascus to fix them, a process that is expected to take between five and eight years depending on the size of destruction and the availability of the materials used in the restoration process. (Xinhua/Wang Jian)
