Russian experts and media professionals: The documentary film (In the Footsteps of the Syrian Elders) embodies the Syrian civilization and its historical legacy

Moscow (ST): Russian experts, media professionals, archaeologists, and filmmakers confirmed that the documentary film (In the Footsteps of the Syrian Elders) not only increases the knowledge horizons of the Russian viewer but also pushes them to learn about the Syrian civilization and its historical heritage.

The participants explained in a press conference on the occasion of its presentation in Moscow that the age of the Syrian tangible heritage amounts to nine thousand years, and reveals all the stages of civilizational development that humanity has gone through, yet this heritage has become a direct target for thieves and antiquities smugglers, and even more than that, and it was ten years ago a place of terrorist hatred that was directed at it from every side and direction.

In interviews with news reporter in Moscow, Sergey Chumakov, General Director of the Russia Cultural Company for Television and Radio Broadcasting all over Russia, said: Syria is the historical garden and the cradle of human civilization, indicating that this film reveals that the beginning was from there, which makes it exciting and wonderful, underlining  the importance of opening the doors of Syria in front of Russian and foreign tourists.

In a similar interview, Natalia Solovyova, director of the Institute for the History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: “Syria is very close to Russia, and its people are also close to the Russian people in terms of their nature and preserving their cultural heritage, as do the Russian citizens,” noting that Syria is not only the cradle of human civilization but also the starting point of the monotheistic religions to the world, stressing that the exit of the foreign occupiers from Syria will open wide horizons for tourism in this country.

K.Q.