DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – Experts back from assessing damage at the museum in Palmyra offered grim new details Saturday about the extent of the destruction caused by the Islamic State group during the 10 months it ruled the ancient town.
The museum was trashed and some of its best-known artifacts and statues were smashed by the extremists, who cut off the heads and hands of statues and demolished others before being driven out last month.
Bartosz Markowski, from the Polish Archaeological Center at the University of Warsaw, told The Associated Press in Damascus that most of the 200 objects which were exhibited on the ground floor were destroyed, many of them apparently with hard tools like hammers. Many artifacts have been stolen, he added. Read more.
Warning I’m going to get mad here…
I can’t stand this shit. I’m glad we have some sort of tabs on what’s happening, It makes me so mad. Syria is filled with so much great history, especially one for my favorite eras (the fifth century ce) and the IS is tearing it up. It’s bad enough that they are hurting, scaring, displacing and killing people, but this alone would set me against them. The complete fools! Why would you destroy history?! (This is a rhetorical question) and even if it weren’t any answer would be bullshit excuses. We can’t get these parts of the record back, once it’s gone it’s gone, stop you fools, just stop! It’s shitting where you eat, it’s pissing in your bed. IS you’re contributing nothing good on all fronts, stop!