Participants: Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near East and History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA; Ziad Hilal, Coordinator of the Educational Service of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Homs, Syria; Paolo Matthiae, Archaeologist and Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the Sapienza University, Rome. Introduced by Roberto Fontolan, Director of the Communion and Liberation International Center. On this occasion screening of the video messages by H.E. Msgr. Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio in Damascus (Syria) and Maamoun Abdulkarim, General Director of Antiquities in Syria.