The civil war is costing Yemen both its past and its present, as archaeological riches are destroyed and lives are lost
, in the hope that political talks might bring the war to an end.
Saba’s affluence made Marib a target for rival kingdoms and conquering armies. In the first century B.C., Rome, after vanquishing Syria and Egypt, diverted the lucrative trade route from overland to sea, bypassing the city. Two Roman legions and auxiliary troops had tried and failed to take Marib after besieging it around 25 B.C., but once trade was rerouted, Saba’s power deteriorated. The neighboring kingdom of Himyar annexed Saba in A.D. 275.
Eventually, Phillips fled Marib following rising tensions with local authorities and tribes who accused him of incompetence, failure to pay local workers, and trying to smuggle artifacts. Phillips was reluctantly received by the British who controlled Aden to the south; the governor of the British protectorate later described him as “a danger and unscrupulous.
The past 15 years of archaeological neglect, however, has also been a blessing for the exposed antiquities of Marib’s sanctuaries: In the Awwam Temple, more than six feet of sand has reburied critical areas of the sacred precinct. “It’s better that everything is under the ground. The sand is safety,” ruefully concludes Sadeq al Salwi, the Marib director for the General Organization of Antiquities and Museums , a Yemeni government agency.
Badradeen Saleh, 45 days old, suffers in the cholera ward at Sanaa’s Al Sabeen maternity hospital. The ongoing cholera outbreak in Yemen, which began in 2016, is the worst ever recorded, with more than 2.5 million cases and 4,000 deaths in the country.A map of Yemen hangs in the malnutrition ward at Al Sabeen maternity hospital. More than two million children in Yemen under the age of five require treatment for acute malnutrition.
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