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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2156111, member: 74300&quot;]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. </p><p><br /></p><p>Much easier to shoot off sphinx&#039;s nose than to blast one&#039;s way into relieving chambers of the great pyramid. Both vandalism, but we can hardly say the implication of Sa&#039;im al-Dahr&#039;s actions were the same as Howard Vyse&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my point is this:</p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, do you honestly believe that historical treasures in Iraq and Syria are limited to couple wall relieves and stone statues? </p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s left for ISIS to film (themselves destroying) are things of lesser value, or those impractical to move.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this video they asked a question at 17:00, &quot;how could the treasure of nimrud had survived?&quot; 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&#039;s desire to one day obtain monetary return for their loot. </p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]B66o-YcNwHs[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s left are ruins, and you can&#039;t really destroy ruins. They also contain very little additional scientific, archeological or artistically value once they had been documented and studied. </p><p><br /></p><p>ISIS can destroy a few tablets, they can&#039;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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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