re: #180 Justanotherhuman

More useless destruction by ISIL of valuable relics.

Iraqi government says Islamic State militants destroyed 2,000-year-old remains of ancient Hatra city, south of Mosul, Iraq - @Reuters
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It’s the same thing the Chinese revolutionaries and the Red Guard did to ancient Buddhist and Daoist temples and monasteries all over China. Many have since been restored, but not to their original state.