Damascus, (SANA)_ After about 4000 hours of hardworking, the Syrian artist Ali Munir al-Assad entered the Guinness World Records casting the biggest copper sculpture in the world.

The sculpture is 50,10 m long, 244 cm high and 2,5 cm thick. The frame is adorned with Islamic and vegetal ornamentations in 78 paintings, the Syrian al-Baath daily said Tuesday.

It narrates Syria's 9-thousand-years history, the Semitic dynasties and the transient and nascent civilizations up to Syria's modern history and its most important figures and events such as October Liberation War 1973 and Martyr's Monument.

The sculpture is the first of its kind all over the world. It is pure hand-made fabricated without even a tack-weld, Guinness World Records Executive Representative in the Middle East Talal Omar said, stressing that the sculpture meets Guinness World Records' conditions which states that the sculpture must be 90% handmade while this is 100% handmade.

Ali al-Assad, with his sculpture, aimed at achieving a historical work which maintains Syria's status as the cradle of ancient civilizations.

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