00:00Can you start just by saying we weren't spies we were archaeologists
00:06No
00:09Because we were spies
00:12I'm a professor of Middle East history and anthropology. I taught archaeology in Damascus and I came to the US in 2011
00:21We broke out in Syria
00:24Someone might reach out to you on Facebook and say I used to be your student in Syria
00:28There's a lot of looting going on. I
00:30Noticed a lot of artifacts were looted from this sites
00:34Looting has been going on for as long as humanity has been burying their dead with goodies
00:38But one of these guys came up to me and he's telling me looting is now a revenue stream for Isis
00:45I
00:46Remember pushing my chair back and I just said I gotta do something. I didn't know how I was going to do it
00:52I had no I just felt I needed to be involved
00:54Somehow we started to help archaeologists inside sir
01:05Collect evidence and send this information outside of the region
01:12We're talking massive black markets for antiquities organized mafias smuggled these goods into the West
01:19We felt that we must document these disappearing items now
01:23You either sat at home and went crazy or you went out and did something
01:30I don't know. I'm not gonna come with a scene. I look dear. What's my penis here?
01:35There are no authorities that are gonna go in and seize this. So I pretend to be a middleman
01:42By then I was already on Isis's kill list
01:45Oh
01:50He had the only evidence that this ever existed
01:55Now anybody can traffic Isis looting Facebook
02:03Okay, we're really on to something
02:06Some people think that antiquity is the past for me. No, it's me. It's my family. It's the prison the future
02:15And
02:19That's why we do it
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