From the 2,000-year-oldTemple of Baalshaminto thecity of Nimrud, ISIS has destroyed countless monuments and relics. Now archaeologists from Harvard and Oxford have teamed up with UNESCO World Heritage and the epigraphical database project at New York University’s Institute for the Study of th...
3D Printed Replicas of ISIS-Destroyed Temple to be Constructed in New York City and London In the year AD 32, the people of Palmyra, Syria began constructing a temple that would be consecrated to the Semitic god Bel and become the epicenter of the city’s religious life. The Temple of Be...
The agency did not give further details or say when the monuments were blown up.Syrian opposition monitors confirmed that ISIS destroyed parts of the amphitheater and the tetrapylon. The extremists recaptured the ancient town in December from government troops -- nine months after ISIS was ...
In August of last year, many of the most precious landmarks of the ancient city of Palmyra were damaged or destroyed by the forces of ISIS in a violent, iconoclastic attempt to send a message to the rest of the world. Since the UNESCO World Heritage Site was recaptured in March, the ...
ISIS, which espouses a puritanical Islamist ideology, has destroyed antiquities and ancient monuments in Iraq. Palmyra is also of strategic importance, sitting at a highway intersection linking it to the cities of Homs and Damascus, some 150 miles to the southwest. ...
”Peter Der Manuelian, director of Harvard’s Semitic Museum, discussed iconoclasm in ancient Egypt and how 3D technology was allowing us to recreate the destroyed past.Joseph Greene, also at the Semitic Museum, surveyed the destruction of museums – repositories of cultural icons – across Syria ...
SEE ALSO: ISIS destroyed a 2,000-year-old arch in ancient Palmyra, Syrian activists say The assault came after government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, managed to capture several hills and high ground around the town earlier this week. Black Friday deals you can shop right now Produ...
International experts are diligently working on ancient ornaments and are taking every effort to preserve what has been left and “rebuild” what has been destroyed during a 10-month-long capture of the city by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISISL/ISIS) terrorists. ...
Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on March 9 that it had received reports the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad had been destroyed. gallery Related gallery 19 priceless monuments lost in conflict “We have warned before and we warn again that those gangs and their sick Tak...
ISIS fighters have destroyed two ancient Muslim shrines in the oasis city of Palmyra, the Syrian government confirmed Wednesday.