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"The village of Hawarti (or Huarte) is 15km north of Apamea. An important church complex was excavated there in the 1970s. The church was built in the 480s by Archbishop Photios of Apamea and paved with mosaics. The church was a rebuilding of an earlier church, also with mosaics, built at the end of the 4th century. The mosaics were removed to a museum. During the winter of 1996-7, part of the floor collapsed, revealing a chamber, which was excavated by robbers who removed a painting. They also found a painted ceiling, but this proved impossible to remove. The Syrian authorities quickly arrested the robbers, and the painting is now in the museum in Damascus. A Dutch archaeologist visited the site in September 1997 and photographed what he could see. A team of Polish archaeologists led by M. Gawlikowski was assigned to begin excavations in August 1998. They found that paintings on the East wall visible in Sept. 1997 had already vanished through robbery and exposure. The Syrian authorities decided to preserve the site in situ and make it accessible to the public. Further seasons of work were undertaken with this in mind."