An expert in antiquities, Abdullah Mohsen, said that Christie's Auction House in London will display a selection of artifacts from ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and Red Sea region at the beginning of July 2024, including two antiquities from Yemen.

According to Mohsen, “The first masterpiece is a statue of the head of a charming Yemeni woman from the first century BC, 19 cm high, and it is one of the collectibles of Charles Eade, who bought it on May 16, 1972 from Christie’s London auction of classical, Egyptian, and Western Asian antiquities and jewelry.”

Mohsen pointed out that “this piece was previously in the ownership of a gentleman from a private English collection, and was offered for sale at Sotheby’s auctions in London on December 6, 2022. The auction had indicated that it was previously in the collection of J. Sangiorgi, and it was Publish information about it at the time.”

As for the second piece, “it is a statue of the head and neck of a man from Yemen from the first century BC. Its height is 18 cm. It is a collection of the Occident Orient Gallery in Paris, which it acquired in 1988,” according to Mohsen.

The specialist, Mohsen, stated that Christie’s had previously “sold, in April 2008, two pages of a manuscript of the Holy Qur’an for a sum of approximately five million dollars (the equivalent of two million four hundred and eighty-four pounds sterling at the time), and it is one of the copies that were written during the reign of Caliph Uthman bin Affan.” May God be pleased with him, copies of which were sent to Sana’a and the capitals of other provinces.”

He pointed out that Christie's had "sold in April 2000 a unique lunch box from Yemen (the Rasulid state) made of silver-plated copper," and that "on June 8, 2007, it sold a bronze statue of antiquities from Yemen for more than half a million dollars."< /p>

From time to time, the expert and specialist in antiquities, Abdullah Mohsen, reveals new details about ancient Yemeni antiquities that are continuously displayed and sold in many countries of the world, especially in Arab and Western countries.

Mohsen makes repeated calls to the Yemeni government to restore these artifacts, which are displayed at auctions at low prices, and to work to prevent their smuggling from within the country.

Since the militia's coup and its ignition of war in Yemen, Yemeni antiquities have been subjected to extensive excavations and looting, which led to them being smuggled and sold in the markets of the Gulf states and Europe at low prices, which constitutes a huge loss to Yemeni cultural heritage.