3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces

[727Sky]

Out with the old and in with the new ? Ideology ? Other cultures have burned and destroyed their history books because they felt the important  history would begin with them and their new regime ... China and d Pol Pot's Cambodia comes to mind along with vast libraries destroyed by invading dumb*ss hordes... But now we have others who want to destroy everything they believe their skyfairy might find offensive.. I am really sick of these animals and hope they are wiped from the face of the earth to the last fighter.  

NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- The chilly December wind whipped rain across the strewn wreckage of a city that, nearly 3,000 years ago, ruled almost the entire Middle East. Rivulets of water ran through the dirt, washing away chunks of ancient stone.
The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group's fervor to erase history. The remains of its palaces and temples, once lined in brilliant reliefs of gods and kings, have been blown up. The statues of winged bulls that once guarded the site are hacked to bits. Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, has been bulldozed.
The militants' fanaticism devastated one of the Middle East's most important archaeological sites. But more than a month after the militants were driven out, Nimrud is still being ravaged, its treasures disappearing, imperiling any chance of eventually rebuilding it, an Associated Press team found after multiple visits in the past month.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/M...1-07-10-59

[Grace]

I find it very sad indeed. I cannot understand the destruction of archeological sites like this, it's human history, it's irreplaceable, and insane to feel like you have to destroy it to protect the feelings of your "god"..  next their god will need a safe space and coloring books.

[senona]

Okay fine, Saddam went into Kuwait and Daddy Bush got him out of there.
Actually, his soldiers hightailed it and ran.

So be it.
That should have been all we did to Saddam.

Had he still be ruling Iraq today,  I highly doubt any of this would be going on right now.

Tens of thousands of citizens live in camps. Much of the city of Ramadi is destroyed. More than 70 mass graves have been unearthed in IS territory. Other ancient sites remain under IS control.

Such a tragedy.



Now this paragraph is a head scratcher for sure....

But it's unclear where the artifacts seized from them are.

The police insisted they were at a lab in the northern city of Irbil. The lab said it knew nothing about them.

The Antiquities Ministry in Baghdad said they were safe in the Nineveh government offices. An official there said they were with the police awaiting transit to Baghdad.

That circle of confusion makes theft easy.

Umm, okaaay.
That doesn't sound very good.





Such a shame to demolish the past as IS has done.....

 

A fragment of an Assyrian-era relief shows the image of a genie holding a pine cone at the ancient site of Nimrud that was destroyed by Islamic State group militants near Mosul, Iraq. in this Nov. 28, 2016 photo. In the 9th and 8th centuries BC, Nimrud was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which burst out of Northern Mesopotamia to conquer much of the Mideast. The remains of its palaces, reliefs and temples were methodically blown up and torn to pieces by the Islamic State group in early 2015 in its campaign to erase history. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)