article_snippet: 2,000-year-old  artefacts looted from ancient sites in Iraq and Syria by ISIS are being sold on eBay as jihadis cash in on relics dating back millennia.
article_snippet: Jewellery, ceramics and coins plundered from museums within ISIS territory are known to pass between criminal gangs before turning up in Gulf States and later appearing on trading websites.
article_snippet: Selling on eBay: Historical artefacts believed to have been looted by ISIS, such as this coin of Apamea dating back to the time of Ancient Greece, are beginning to appear on eBay .
article_snippet: The trade in antiquities is a profitable business for the terror group and is thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds, The Times reports.
article_snippet: The number of artefacts flowing from the war zone is so great that The number of artefacts flowing from the war zone market price has actually fallen.
article_snippet: Small coins such as these are easy to smuggle across borders to criminal gangs in neighbouring countries.
article_snippet: the artefact is believed that ISIS takes orders from dealers in neighbouring countries, with small items such as coins easy to smuggle across borders due to the number of people being displaced.
article_snippet: Using smuggling routes and links to criminal gangs in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, the ancient treasures can be packed in with cargoes of oil, drugs and weapons as the ancient treasures move across borders.
article_snippet: Excavations at the sites have increased and we believe trafficking is on the rise but without access to the sites we still don't know the true scale.'
highlights_snippet: Now antiquities plundered by group are appearing on trading websites .
  
highlights_snippet: eBay is thought ISIS smuggle artefacts in cargo to criminal gangs in neighbouring countries .