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ISIS bulldozes ancient city and historical monuments in Iraq and Syria

They deliberately targeted an Assyrian site because beduoin arabs(known as Baddu), who dominate ISIS claim whole of Iraq for themselves. I bet these Baddus are descended from Cain. Basically the most barbaric and wretched nation on earth. Saudi Ikhwaan, the spiritual predecessor of ISIS and history's first Salafi terrorist movement was also led and comprised of baddus, who attacked the real arabs.

This is the world famous bust of Nefertiri who is also in Berlin:

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I remember you once claiming that Europeans were always much more advanced than orientals, and that orientals couldn't even make a proper statue. Well that queen looks quite well made to me. Oh, and this sculpture is from 14th century bc. You know what Germans and Romans were like that time? Well.. They weren't the most advanced Utopia then.
 
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Below is an incomplete list of destroyed sites:

Mosques[edit]
Cemeteries and tombs[edit]
Historical religious sites[edit]
  • The house of Mawlid where Muhammad is believed to have been born in 570. Originally turned into a library, it now lies under a rundown building which was built 70 years ago as a compromise after Wahhabi clerics called for it to be torn down.[20]
  • The house of Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife. Muslims believe he received some of the first revelations there. It was also where his children Fatimah and Qasimwere born. After it was rediscovered during the Haram extensions in 1989, it was covered over and it was made into a library.
  • A Hilton hotel stands on the site of the house of Islam’s first caliph, Abu Bakr.[21]
  • House of Muhammed in Medina, where he lived after the migration from Mecca.[19]
  • Dar e Arqam, the first Islamic school where Muhammad taught.[20] It now lies under the extension of the Masjid Alharam of Mecca.
  • Qubbat’ al-Thanaya, the burial site of Muhammed's incisor that was broken in the Battle of Uhud.[13]
  • Mashrubat Umm Ibrahim, built to mark the location of the house where Muhammad’s son, Ibrahim, was born to Mariah.
  • Dome which served as a canopy over the Well of Zamzam.[19]
  • Bayt al-Ahzan of Sayyida Fatima, in Medina.[19]
  • House of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, in Medina.[19]
  • Mahhalla complex of Banu Hashim, in Mecca.[19]
  • House of Ali where Hasan and Husayn were born.[19]
 
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They deliberately targeted an Assyrian site because beduoin arabs(known as Baddu), who dominate ISIS claim whole of Iraq for themselves. I bet these Baddus are descended from Cain. Basically the most barbaric and wretched nation on earth. Saudi Ikhwaan, the spiritual predecessor of ISIS and history's first Salafi terrorist movement was also led and comprised of baddus, who attacked the real arabs.



I remember you once claiming that Europeans were always much more advanced than orientals, and that orientals couldn't even make a proper statue. Well that queen looks quite well made to me. Oh, and this sculpture is from 14th century bc. You know what Germans and Romans were like that time? Well.. They weren't the most advanced Utopia then.


Well she is beautiful i give you that. Our art from that time was quite nice too:

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both "picture and statue head) are pre roman. We have the big problem in italia that the empire is so overwhelming that you have huge problems to find the old etruscan art which predates rome and even harder to find artifacts that predate etruscan art.
 
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Well she is beautiful i give you that. Our art from that time was quite nice too:

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both "picture and statue head) are pre roman. We have the big problem in italia that the empire is so overwhelming that you have huge problems to find the old etruscan art which predates rome and even harder to find artifacts that predate etruscan art.

They probably learnt it from Egyptians. Even Greeks considered Egyptians to be far advanced in ancient knowledge and all. And that guy on the left looks quite dark. Is he an Etruscan?
 
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They probably learnt it from Egyptians. Even Greeks considered Egyptians to be far advanced in ancient knowledge and all. And that guy on the left looks quite dark. Is he an Etruscan?


yes he is Etruscan. Thats how we get in summer. Its also a symbol for being male. The girl is pale because girls were more inside the house. The guys were outisde hunting, making sports and training so were more tanned.

I can see it on myself, in winter i get very pale and in summer very darkish.

As for your comments about egypt. They are wrong. I don´´t know about greeks but i can tell you that my roman ancestors did not see egypt as "advanced". Egypt was basicly seen as a gigantic freak show. Our people saw the old culture as very interesting and used scientific knowledge from there and advanced it with own ideas. Some religious ideas got popular in rome too. The godess Isis for example.

But the egyptian people were seen as strange. Weird stodies were popular that egyptians shave all their hair when their cat dies.

Egypt as a whole was seen as weak and degenerated in many aspects. A gigantic empire like the roman empire which was based so much on its military and dominated from its male population was not so fond of a country in isolation ruled from a glitter queen. Theer were all kind of crazy stories about egypt and its culture and their queen. That they had sex with their siblings was not helping either, because that was scandalous in rome.

When egypt became part of our empire it was a very important one, because its corn exports. Alexandrias was the 2nd most important city in our empire. Our emperor became also the Pharao of egypt. He hold this title and when visiting egypt he would wear the traditional pharaonic uniform and perform the rituals there.

You see, our relationship was ambivalent :D
 
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ISIS bulldozes ancient city compared to ‘King Tut’s tomb’ in second desecration of ancient artifacts in a week | National Post

ISIS bulldozes ancient city compared to ‘King Tut’s tomb’ in second desecration of ancient artifacts in a week

Vivian Salama, Associated Press | March 6, 2015 | Last Updated: Mar 6 9:03 AM ET
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KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty ImagesA file picture taken on July 17, 2001 shows Iraqi workers cleaning a statue of winged bull at an archeological site in Nimrud, 35 kilometres southeast of the northern city of Mosul. ISIS has begun bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said.

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces pressed their offensive against ISIS Friday, expecting to reach the outskirts of the militant-held city of Tikrit, a day after the extremists reportedly “bulldozed” a famed archaeological site in the area.

In Paris, the head of the UN’s cultural agency said the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage — such as the latest rampage at Iraq’s archaeological site of Nimrud — amounts to a “war crime.”

The discovery of the treasures of Nimrud’s royal tombs in the 1980s is considered one of the 20th century’s most significant archaeological finds. It dates back almost 3,000 years and has been compared to King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt.

The Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said late Thursday that ISIS militants “bulldozed” the renowned archaeological site of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq.

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AP Photo/American Colony Photo Department via Library of CongressA Library of Congress photo taken during the autumn of 1932 shows a hill at the site of the ancient city of Nimrud, the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that began in about 900 B.C., south of Mosul, northern Iraq.
The destruction is part of the group’s campaign to enforce its violent interpretation of Islamic law, destroying ancient archaeological sites it says promoted apostasy.

The ministry’s report could not be immediately independently confirmed.

In Paris, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova appealed in a statement Friday to people around the world – “especially youth” – to protect “the heritage of the whole of humanity.”

Bokova denounced “this cultural chaos” and said she had alerted both U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

“The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime,” she said. “I call on all political and religious leaders in the region to stand up and remind everyone that there is absolutely no political or religious justification for the destruction of humanity’s cultural heritage.”

Nimrud was the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that began in about 900 B.C., partially in present-day Iraq, and became a great regional power. The city, which was destroyed in 612 B.C., is located on the Tigris River just south of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, which was captured by ISIS in June.

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KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Iraqi worker stands 21 April 2001 next to the ancient statue of a winged bull with a human face, an indication of strength in the Assyrian civilization, at the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, the battle to wrest Tikrit — Saddam Hussein’s hometown — from ISIS is a major test for the Iraqi forces and allied Shiite militias fighting on their side.

The governor of Salahuddin, Raed al-Jabouri, said that Iraqi forces expect to reach Tikrit later Friday. He told The Associated Press they still have not made it to Tikrit’s east airport as some reports have suggested.

Tikrit, 130 kilometers north of Baghdad, has been under the control of ISIS group since June, when the Sunni militants made a lightning advance across northern Iraq, prompting Iraqi troops to flee and abandon their weapons.

On Monday, Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale operation in an effort to retake the city from the militant group, but the offensive was stalled somewhat, with military officials saying the militants strategically lined roads leading to the city with explosives and land mines.

ISIS extremists, who control a third of Iraq and Syria, have attacked other archaeological and religious sites, claiming that they promote apostasy. Their rampage against priceless cultural artifacts has sparked global outrage.

Earlier this week, a video emerged on militant websites showing ISIS militants with sledgehammers destroying ancient artifacts at the museum in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city that also fell into IS hands last year.

Last year, the militants destroyed the Mosque of the Prophet Younis — or Jonah — and the Mosque of the Prophet Jirjis, two revered ancient shrines in Mosul. They also threatened to destroy Mosul’s 850-year old Crooked Minaret, but residents surrounded the structure, preventing the militants from approaching.

Suzanne Bott, the heritage conservation project director for Iraq and Afghanistan in the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture, Planning and Archaeology, worked at Nimrud on and off for two years between 2008 and 2010. She helped stabilize structures and survey Nimrud for the U.S. State Department as part of a joint U.S. military and civilian unit.

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APMilitants attack ancient artifacts with sledgehammers in the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. The extremist group has destroyed a number of shrines --including Muslim holy sites -- in order to eliminate what it views as heresy. The militants are also believed to have sold ancient artifacts on the black market in order to finance their bloody campaign across the region.
She described Nimrud as one of four main Assyrian capital cities that practiced medicine, astrology, agriculture, trade and commerce, and had some of the earliest writings.

“It’s really called the cradle of Western civilization, that’s why this particular loss is so devastating,” Bott said. “What was left on site was stunning in the information it was able to convey about ancient life.

“People have compared it to King Tut’s tomb,” she said.

Also Thursday, the IS militants set fire to some oil wells outside Tikrit, an Iraqi oil official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the media. The smoky fires were apparently meant to obscure targets from government bombing runs, part of the wide-scale operation that began Monday.

The Ajeel oil field, about 35 kilometres northeast of Tikrit, was one of at least four fields seized by the militants as a source of crude oil to sell to smugglers to finance their operations.

They are truly representative of Genghis khan. Please go back to your cave now
 
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As it turns out,it was the right thing to do.In fact,more should have been taken to be saved.It isn't the first time islamic nutjobs destroy priceless artifacts ,and i'm feeling it won't be the last time either.

That explains the artifacts stolen from non Islamic nations like India or China.
 
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