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The victim, who was visiting the memorial with two friends, was badly injured but managed to stagger out of the steles before collapsing in front of the memorial.

The room’s most impressive object is a 5th century BC carved marble stele, 8 feet tall.

The priests were standing near a field of ancient obelisks, or stelae, which date from the 4th Century.

In a historic agreement with the Republic of Yemen, the museum will research and temporarily care for the funerary stelae.

The stele was illegally excavated near the ancient city of Zeugma, in what is near Gaziantep, in present-day southeastern Turkey, the police said.