Researchers recommend teaching "optimal dog walking practices" and enforcing proper dog training to minimise the chances of them hurting their human companion.
Police attended the scene "in line with standard protocol" - and an investigation has been launched into how the four-year-olds managed to escape in the first place.
Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.