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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorld Heritage and Beauty You'll Never See Again (IMAGE HEAVY)
Temple of Baal-Shamin - Palmyra, SyriaMosque of the Prophet Younis - Mosul, Iraq
Uwais al-Qarni Mosque - ar-Raqqa, Syria
Nimrud, Ancient Assyrian City of Kalhu - Northern Iraq
Ancient City of Hatra - Northern Iraq
Dair Mar Elia, Saint Elijah's Monastery - Mosul, Iraq
Armenian Genocide Memorial - Deir ez-Zor, Syria
Tal Afar Citadel - Northern Iraq
Arches of Palmyra - Palmyra, Syria
I don't have the heart to show you what all these places look like now.
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World Heritage and Beauty You'll Never See Again (IMAGE HEAVY) (Original Post)
NuclearDem
Jun 2016
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katmondoo
(6,457 posts)1. Makes want to cry and cry again and again
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)2. It makes a special kind of sick, that I can say.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)3. Odd that they spend so much time on (de)construction projects while supposedly losing...
...a running war.
I can think of many more things to use explosives on in the case of being caught in a losing war, and architecture that I don't like from 4,000 years ago is darn near dead last on that list.
Monsters.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)4. This shit is unreal.
To tear down history show a lack of historical understanding.
haele
(12,652 posts)6. They do it intentionally to hurt and goad. They don't care to understand.
It's a f'n temper tantrum fueled by the willful ignorance of the dis-affected youth and a cynical grasp for power by self-involved older fuck-wads who would choose to live in a very small and constricted world so long as they are in charge.
Haele
They want to ruin all pleasure and force us to live in a desolate world.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)5. imagine
if they got into Egypt.