Palmyra: Isis pictured launching new assault on artefacts in ancient ruins

[cryptocoiner]

Palmyra: Isis pictured launching new assault on artefacts in ancient ruins


Isis has destroyed a series of artefacts in the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria, including the lion of al-Lat, a famous 15 tonne statue.

Photographs have also been published of a man being forced to destroy statues with a sledgehammer by Isis militants as a crowd looks on.

Isis (otherwise known as Islamic state) said the statues were seized from a smuggler, who was trying to remove them from the ruins.

The man was pictured being whipped as a punishment as he was forced to destroy the statues by Isis militants, who then finished the destruction.

Speaking to AFP, Syria’s antiquities director Maamoun Abdelkarim on Thursday called the destruction of the Lion of al-Lat "the most serious crime they have committed against Palmyra's heritage."


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palmyra-live-isis-pictured-launching-new-assault-on-artefacts-in-ancient-ruins-10363020.html

[bryant.coleman]

The ISIS want to destroy all the evidences of the pre-Islamic heritage. According to them, human civilization didn't existed before the invention of Islam. So they will erase every single evidence, portraying the human history before that. For example, they will destroy the pyramids, if they come to power in Egypt. But that would be difficult as hell, as the pyramids took millions of people working for many decades to get completed.

[Sithara007]

For example, they will destroy the pyramids, if they come to power in Egypt.

How they are going to destroy them? They are too large.

[Muhammed Zakir]

For example, they will destroy the pyramids, if they come to power in Egypt.

How they are going to destroy them? They are too large.

Destorying the base?!

[Spendulus]

For example, they will destroy the pyramids, if they come to power in Egypt.

How they are going to destroy them? They are too large.

That's easy.  As was pointed out...

But that would be difficult as hell, as the pyramids took millions of people working for many decades to get completed.

You just get millions of people working for many decades to complete the task.

[bryant.coleman]

You just get millions of people working for many decades to complete the task.

Hmm... good idea. 

There is no shortage of manpower in Egypt. The current population is estimated at 82 million, and it is growing at a rate of 2% per year.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/egypt-population-explosion-social-unrest

Millions of Egyptian nationals are working as blue-collar employees in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. All these people can be called back, and sent to Giza to demolish the pyramids.

[freemind1]

If they touch one pyramid things can change a lot. Egypt is not going to be watching idly as do other countries.