IS destroys temple at Palmyra ruins in Syria

[Madali]

Well, let's look at it this way. Historical sites have been destroyed for the past hundreds of years. If no invading army ever destroyed any historical building, where would we build our shopping malls? Huh? Did you think about that?

In it's place, ISIS can build a big shopping mall, call it, "The Islamic Mall of Great Jihad" and an IMAX showing all their executions in 3D.

 

[Hindustani78]

Two defaced busts from the second and third century are displayed inside the Colosseum in Rome as part of an exhibition, “Rising From Destruction: Ebla, Nimrud, Palmyra.” The busts were recovered from Palmyra, Syria, after it was retaken from the Islamic State. Other artifacts, which have been damaged even more severely, have been reproduced using modern tools. Credit Gregoiro Borgia/Associated Press

Full-scale reconstructions were also made of two damaged Syrian sites: the archive room of Ebla and a portion of a ceiling from the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, as examples of how conflict can devastate a nation’s fragile heritage.

“Nimrud was the first place to be destroyed,” said Frances Pinnock, the co-director of the Ebla expedition, the most important Italian archaeological expedition to Syria. “It was a palace known as the Versailles of the ancient Near East, and so it was chosen because it was symbolic.”