IS destroys temple at Palmyra ruins in Syria

[Saif al-Arab]

Finally Romans are defeated

Palmyra (the Greek name of "Tadmor" which is the original Semitic name of Palmyra) is an ancient Semitic city. It was ruled by the Semitic Akkadians, Arameans, Amorites, Assyrians and Arabs before the Romans took control of it. The deities found in Palmyra today are local Semitic deities, Mesopotamian (also Semitic) and pre-Islamic Arab pagan deities.

Palmyra features many distinct architectural styles as the nature of Palmyra has been changing for millenniums.

Palmyra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Besides the "Romans" in Northern Arabia, Levant etc. were not really Romans but mostly local Christian Arabs/Semites or non-Abrahamic Semitic pagans.

Philip the Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first Christian Roman Emperor moreover.

A few Roman Emperors were Arabs from those regions of the Arab world but are known as "Romans". Same story with "Romans" in North Africa, Egypt etc.

A lot of the other Roman Emperors were Slavs or Illyrians from the Balkans.

 

[jammersat]

Palmyra (the Greek name of "Tadmor" which is the original Semitic name of Palmyra) is an ancient Semitic city. It was ruled by the Semitic Akkadians, Arameans, Amorites, Assyrians and Arabs before the Romans took control of it. The deities found in Palmyra today are local Semitic deities, Mesopotamian (also Semitic) and pre-Islamic Arab pagan deities.

Palmyra features many distinct architectural styles as the nature of Palmyra has been changing for millenniums.

Palmyra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Besides the "Romans" in Northern Arabia, Levant etc. were not really Romans but mostly local Christian Arabs/Semites or non-Abrahamic Semitic pagans.

Philip the Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first Christian Roman Emperor moreover.

A few Roman Emperors were Arabs from those regions of the Arab world but are known as "Romans". Same story with "Romans" in North Africa, Egypt etc.

A lot of the other Roman Emperors were Slavs or Illyrians from the Balkans.

Syrians served Romans just like the christian armenians , and they are paying for it .. most of the disputed territory between the persians and Romans was infact the Levant .....

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Syrians served Romans just like the christian armenians , and they are paying for it .. most of the disputed territory between the persians and Romans was infact the Levant .....

Those whom you call "Romans" were locals in the case of Northern Arabia + Levant (Arabia Petraea). Almost all of the rulers were locals. Moreover in quite a few instances the Roman Emperor himself was from those regions of the Arab world or others.

Philip the Arab being a good example of that. One of the more influential Roman emperors in Roman history.

In the well over 10.000 years of recorded Levantine history (the longest continously inhabited cities in the world are located in Southern Levant) "Roman" presence is less than 500 years old.

Later the same Romans adopted the religion of the region (Christianity) and many other customs after initially persecuting it.

Also this event has nothing to do with "Romans".

Palmyra in its current state survived 1300 years of Islamic rule (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid and Ottoman) + 95 years of Syrian rule.

From what I am aware of Daesh has "only" destroyed parts of Palmyra (a huge complex) and in any case 3D printing allows us to rebuilt all ancient historical and Islamic sites destroyed by Daesh.

Project Mosul — Artifacts Destroyed by ISIS Will be Restored Thanks to 3D Printing - 3DPrint.com

Experts harness 3D printing to recreate ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS | Fox News

 

[macnurv]

Iron fist !?
when Maliki was using regular police equipment against protesters , you Pakistani called him Dictator ...
now you are talking about Iron fist ...

Oh zip it you Iranian tout. Iran supported that terrorist Maliki who was using military equipment against sunni tribes, even after months of peaceful demonstrations things were getting no where. Hundreds of Sunni Iraqis were murdered during those protests, as if the ethnic cleansing being committed by Iran backed Shia militias were not enough. And yet you shamelessly here trying to defend that crook Maliki, but why won't you because he was your bastard.

 

[hussain0216]

Nothing surprising at all for Indians. Our history is filled up with Muslims kings attacking and destroying hundreds of thousands of temples and such historic sites for centuries. They remain hero for same people who r now criticizing IS of carrying similar horrific acts in Syria & Iraq...someone define irony !!

Stop stop your making me all misty eyed

 

[Hindustani78]

High-tech plan in place to save ancient sites from ISIS: Report | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, August 28, 2015 - 20:03

London: A team of digital-age "monuments men" will fightback against the Islamic State's destruction of ancient sites by flooding the Middle East region with cameras and harnessing 3D printing technology to reconstruct the destroyed antiquities, according to a media report.

Archaeologists at Oxford and Harvard will flood the region with 3D cameras in a plan to create a full digital record of every threatened artefact.

If the treasures they photograph are destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the academics will harness 3D printing technology to reconstruct them in the same style as the original antiquities, The Times reported.

The plan has come to light after the obliteration by ISIS of the 2,000-year-old temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra in Syria this week, the latest action in the worst spate of archaeological destruction since the Second World War.

In a letter from the Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology, which conceived the 2 million pounds project, the group said it aimed to "flood the Middle East with thousands of low-cost 3D cameras and enlist local partners to photograph as many items of historical significance as possible".

The institute, working with the heritage body UNESCO, aims to gather five million images of antiquities, from sprawling Mesopotamian palaces to handfuls of coins and pottery, by the end of the year.

In a race against the bulldozers and sledgehammers of ISIS, it plans to compile 20 million pictures of objects before 2017.

"Palmyra is rapidly becoming the symbol of ISIS' cultural iconoclasm," Roger Michel, the institute's director, was quoted as saying.

"If ISIS is permitted to wipe the slate clean and rewrite the history of a region that defined global aesthetic and political sensibilities, we will collectively suffer a costly and irreversible defeat. But there is hope. By placing the record of our past in the digital realm, it will lie for ever beyond the reach of vandals and terrorists," he said.

Recent attacks on holy sites began in March 2001 when Taliban fighters in Afghanistan destroyed two statues of Buddha carved into the hills of Bamiyan.

From the end of next month the Institute for Digital Archaeology will distribute hundreds of internet-enabled 3D cameras through archaeology networks in Iraq. It plans to expand into Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan and Turkey.

To provide a complete record, each object will need to be photographed from several angles. The information can then be uploaded to an open-source database online.

The plan is reminiscent of the George Clooney film "The Monuments Men" in which a team of experts were sent into Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. However, in the real plan experts will flood parts of the Middle East with 3D cameras.

Those whom you call "Romans" were locals in the case of Northern Arabia + Levant (Arabia Petraea). Almost all of the rulers were locals. Moreover in quite a few instances the Roman Emperor himself was from those regions of the Arab world or others.

Philip the Arab being a good example of that. One of the more influential Roman emperors in Roman history.

In the well over 10.000 years of recorded Levantine history (the longest continously inhabited cities in the world are located in Southern Levant) "Roman" presence is less than 500 years old.

Later the same Romans adopted the religion of the region (Christianity) and many other customs after initially persecuting it.

Also this event has nothing to do with "Romans".

Palmyra in its current state survived 1300 years of Islamic rule (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid and Ottoman) + 95 years of Syrian rule.

From what I am aware of Daesh has "only" destroyed parts of Palmyra (a huge complex) and in any case 3D printing allows us to rebuilt all ancient historical and Islamic sites destroyed by Daesh.

Project Mosul — Artifacts Destroyed by ISIS Will be Restored Thanks to 3D Printing - 3DPrint.com

Experts harness 3D printing to recreate ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS | Fox News

IS are mainly ex Baathist soldiers and the only aim is to create more tension in the region. Syrian Government will show themselves more secular and can still keep things still under control.

 

[Mrc]

Palmyra and most of these sites predate islam.
That means they were left un touched during original conquest in rashidun era...

So does ISIS know more islam than umar bin khattab, usman and Ali (RA)????

 

[Hindustani78]

Palmyra and most of these sites predate islam.
That means they were left un touched during original conquest in rashidun era...

So does ISIS know more islam than umar bin khattab, usman and Ali (RA)????

IS is nothing but ex Baathist soldiers who are trying to keep the power in hand.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Palmyra and most of these sites predate islam.
That means they were left un touched during original conquest in rashidun era...

So does ISIS know more islam than umar bin khattab, usman and Ali (RA)????

See post 18.

The only people who are desperate to equate Daesh with Islam are ignorants, anti-Muslims and Shia Takfiris (Iranians especially) who are desperate to equal Sunni Islam and Sunni Muslims, in particular Arabs, with Daesh. Yet when historical realities (1300 years of Islamic history), Islamic jurisprudence etc. is taken into account their "arguments" fall apart too.

IS are mainly ex Baathist soldiers and the only aim is to create more tension in the region. Syrian Government will show themselves more secular and can still keep things still under control.

It does not matter (nowadays) what those creatures are or where they emerged from. What is certain is that they need to be combated until they will taste defeat. A defeat that they will not be able to bounce back from. The civil war in Syria next door and the oppressive policies of the Al-Maliki regime resurrected them from near death.

There should be a consensus about this. If not the region can go to hell and self-explode for all I care.

Real regional actions should be taken to combat all militant groups in the region. No prosperous region of the planet has militant groups which are running havoc in almost every corner.

The MENA region has more militant groups than successful firms. Almost.

 

[Hindustani78]

It does not matter (nowadays) what those creatures are or where they emerged from. What is certain is that they need to be combated until they will taste defeat. A defeat that they will not be able to bounce back from. The civil war in Syria next door and the oppressive policies of the Al-Maliki regime resurrected them from near death.

There should be a consensus about this. If not the region can go to hell and self-explode for all I care.

Real regional actions should be taken to combat all militant groups in the region. No prosperous region of the planet has militant groups which are running havoc in almost every corner.

The MENA region has more militant groups than successful firms. Almost.

We all are aware that the Iraqi Baathist high command was operating from inside Syria and still the Iraqi Baathists are there inside Syria and here they are using the sectarian card to show that they are seperate from Syrian Baathist leadership but they seems to be working together and just have divided the regions. Syrian Air defenses are still in place which is under the control of the Syrian military.

Iraqi Baathist leadership is having funds which they have pumped out from the Oil money and the weapons are being supplied seems to be from the Syrian side.

 

[Hindustani78]

Satellite images confirm Syrian temple destruction: U.N.| Reuters

Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:22am EDT

Satellite images have confirmed the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a United Nations agency said, after the hardline Islamic State group claimed responsibility for blowing up the structure a week ago.

Islamic State detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple on Aug. 25, an act that cultural agency UNESCO has called a war crime aimed at wiping out a symbol of Syria's diverse cultural heritage.

An analysis of an image taken in June and others taken several days ago show the obliteration of the temple in the central desert city, the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Training and Research said in a statement.

"We confirm the destruction of the main building, while surrounding columns seem to be less affected."

Activists have said Islamic State is tightly controlling communications in the city, making its reports of events difficult to verify independently.

Islamic State has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory it holds in both Syria and Iraq. It has often carried out mass killings in places it captures and demolishes monuments it considers sacrilegious.

Islamic State published a photo report of the destruction on Tuesday. The group also beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, an 82-year-old Syrian archaeologist who had looked after Palmyra's ruins for four decades, and hung his body in public, according to Syria's antiquities chief.

The group seized the desert city of Palmyra in May from government forces but initially left its historical sites unharmed.

(Reporting by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)

 

[بلندر]

Palmyra and most of these sites predate islam.
That means they were left un touched during original conquest in rashidun era...

So does ISIS know more islam than umar bin khattab, usman and Ali (RA)????

I won't surprise if they Takfir them ...
When some muftti just used Fatwa for their own interest and other fools follow them blindly , then we will see this kind of actions ....

 

[Hindustani78]

I won't surprise if they Takfir them ...
When some muftti just used Fatwa for their own interest and other fools follow them blindly , then we will see this kind of actions ....

War is going on there and for sure fatwas will be given for thier own interest.

 

[Hindustani78]

Satellite images confirm destruction of famed temple in Syria's Palmyra: UN | Zee News

Geneva: Satellite images confirm the destruction of another famed temple in Syria's Palmyra, the United Nations said late Monday.

"We can confirm destruction of the main building of the Temple of Bel as well as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity," the UN training and research agency UNITAR said, providing satellite images from before and after a powerful blast in the ruins of the ancient city Sunday.

The blast had already raised fears Monday that the Islamic State group had damaged another of the Middle East's most treasured heritage sites.

UNITAR said its satellite programme put to rest any doubts that the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel had been destroyed in the blast.

A shot taken on August 27 clearly shows an erect, rectangular structure surrounded by columns, while a shot taken on Monday showed there was little left besides a few columns in the very outer edges of the site.

IS already destroyed the smaller Baal Shamin temple at Palmyra last week, confirming the worst fears about their intentions for the site, which they seized from Syrian regime forces in May.

UNITAR on Friday also presented satellite images confirming the destruction of the Baal Shamin temple, which the UN's cultural agency UNESCO called a "war crime".

The jihadists have carried out a sustained campaign of destruction against heritage sites in areas under their control in Syria and Iraq, and in mid-August beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities chief in Palmyra.

The extremist group's interpretation of Islam considers statues and grave markers to be idolatrous, but it has also been accused of destroying heritage sites to loot items for the black market and to gain publicity.

Known as the "Pearl of the Desert", Palmyra, which means City of Palms, lies 210 kilometres (130 miles) northeast of Damascus.

Before the Syrian conflict erupted 2011, more than 150,000 tourists visited Palmyra every year.

Before the arrival of Christianity in the second century, Palmyra worshipped the Semitic god Bel, along with the sun god Yarhibol and lunar god Aglibol.

Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim described the Temple of Bel as Palmyra's most important site, and also the most important temple in the Middle East along side Baalbek in Lebanon.

Construction on the temple began in 32 BC and ended in the second century, and it later served as both a church and a mosque.

AFP

 

[Stag112]

Spot the difference.

Good terrorist bad terrorists - a millenium old game of hypocrisy. Soon at a temple near you.