Will Isis destroy Palmyra?

Such a beautiful city. I wish I could just go there once to see those magnificent ruins. Palmyra is an oddity in that it's architecture is a melting pot of Greco-Roman and perisan features. That's pretty cool! I would certainly fight for these ruins if I could; hopefully these barbarians will be destroyed!

 

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Humans have long been destroying cities, civilizations and history throughout our time on earth and unfortunately it doesn't seem like it will ever abate. Judging by the way this group has treated other antiquities I'd say it's very probable they will destroy the city unfortunately.

 

Unfortunately Palmyra has fallen to ISIS today... guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens

 

Got it! Too bad we can't get some bombs made of billions of fake coins and drop them right on top ISIS and flatten their sick jihadi minds!!

 

For that to be true on these specific cases one would had to employ enormous amount of manpower and efforts, regardless of having modern power tools or not, and even smallest and lowest of men would still need purposes and determination to do that.

Much easier to shoot off sphinx's nose than to blast one's way into relieving chambers of the great pyramid. Both vandalism, but we can hardly say the implication of Sa'im al-Dahr's actions were the same as Howard Vyse's.

Anyway, my point is this:
ISIS is merely advertising itself with these propaganda videos showing destruction of limited amount of artifacts, and our medias are way to excited to play right into their hands by touting destruction of sites and history.

I mean, do you honestly believe that historical treasures in Iraq and Syria are limited to couple wall relieves and stone statues?

Real problem is that these regions of great historical and archeological value had been war torn for decades, and for the most part, damage had already been dealt. What's left for ISIS to film (themselves destroying) are things of lesser value, or those impractical to move.

In this video they asked a question at 17:00, "how could the treasure of nimrud had survived?" The answer is quite simple, they survive for their value. Things of great values are preserved, whether by armed guards of museums, political pressure, or looter's desire to one day obtain monetary return for their loot.



What's left are ruins, and you can't really destroy ruins. They also contain very little additional scientific, archeological or artistically value once they had been documented and studied.

ISIS can destroy a few tablets, they can't destroy the knowledge passed down through cuneiform on those tablets. The amount of destruction they can cause is hardly significant compared to what people before them had done, and probably not worth being blown out of proportion.

 

Iran is not worried about ISIS, the Iranians would love to have ISIS put one foot on their land. ISIS wants no part of taking on the Iranians. Iran would tear them to shreds.

 

with their scale model stealth fighter or world's longest failure to develop a nuke?
or maybe the best maintained f-14 fleet in the world with no ammo?
yay go iran!