ISIL destroyed the ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud

donaghs

Another one bites the dust. Strange to say it, but sometimes stuff like this, e.g the Taliban blowing up the statues of the Buddhas, can hit you harder than stats of all the people they've killed.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/isis-destroys-ancient-assyrian-site-of-nimrud

circadian

It's just so mindless, like everything they're doing.

The locals are very proud of these artifacts and the history. Destroying this is just like another kick in the teeth given what they've already been going through.

Horrible shower of @#@£;

juice1304

Along with artifacts from a museum. Ignorant @ssholes. It really makes my blood boil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYX_CbwAD8

tac foley

It's a hard thing to say, but people can be replaced. The physical history of this planet is literally irreplaceable.

My heart bleeds for the bathos of it all, and it's no use saying that 'they know not what they do' - every action they take is carefully thought out and planned to bring the maximum hate down on them - that way they can 'justify' in their warped minds the actions they take against the rest of of us by pointing out how much we hate them.

tac

FluffyAngel

under the cover of "mindless act" they know that there is willing treasure hunters who will buy artifacts for big sums of dollars

which of course can be traded for

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thankfuly we have pictures to remind us of the beauty of the ancients

dubhthach

They talk about returning Islam to it's "Golden period" but even the Umayyad's used human imagergy on their coins, like this example from late 7th century:



They have now started destroying the remains of city of Hatra, founded by the Seleucid Empire and after it's incorproration in the Parthian Empire was one of the key points in Roman-Parthian wars restanding sieges by no greater of Emperors as Trajan!

It was abandoned in the third century after the conquest of Parthian Empire by the Sassanid Dynasty (native Iranian dynasty that replaced the Parthians -- who were originally separate Iranic people). The site (until demolition started) is a UNESCO world heritage site!

dubhthach

More information on Arsacid military architecture comes from Mesopotamia. Its development there took place under a strong influence from western and earlier Assyro-Babylonian civilization. Consequently, massive curtain walls, furnished with regularly spaced projecting towers, had a long tradition dating back to at least the Early Bronze Age, both in regular military constructions and in city walls. The defensive complexes of Hatra (q.v.; Andrae, pp. 24-59, Khalil Ibrahim, pp. 117-23; Gawlikowski, pp. 147-84), Khirbeth Jaddalah (Khalil Ibrahim, pp. 143-54), Nippur (Knudstad, pp. 95-106; Bergamini, pp. 205-09), Ctesiphon (q.v.), and Dura Europos (q.v.; Gerkan, pp. 4-61; Bergamini, pp. 197-201; Kennedy and Riley, pp. 112-14; Gelin, Leriche, and žAbdul Massih, pp. 46; žAbdul Massih, pp. 47-54) merit special attention for the discussion of Parthian military architecture. Hatra is undoubtedly the best example of a fortified city preserved from the Parthian period in Mesopotamia (FIGURE 3). The round plan took advantage of a naturally defensive location while the walls were furnished with a number of projecting towers, and four city gates built of stone blocks. Enemy troops would have first been engaged by a network of small forts like, for example, Khirbeth Jaddalah (FIGURE 4), that would block their path before they could actually attack Hatra. These small forts were also used as residences by Hatrean elite and nobles. The Khirbeth Jaddalah fort also exhibits characteristic defensive elements such as towers with rounded corners, which reduced the blind field in front of the curtain wall, and small compartments located all around inside the defensive wall. These fortifications were certainly not designed to stand a long siege, unlike the well-prepared systems of the big cities of Hatra, Ctesiphon (qq.v.), and other Mesopotamian cities settled in the Arsacid period.

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arsacids-viii-military-architecture-of-parthia

dubhthach

Some more images of Hatra, it appears like it was in very good condition







Basically a blending of Hellenic and Persian architecutre, that would have been widespread in the region among the successors of Alexander (such as the Seleucid's)

pedroeibar1

We have not done such a bad job ourselves, considering it. We had the bomb in the Four Courts records office, the burning of the ‘Big Houses’ (a Rembrandt was used as a dartboard in one), destruction of Georgian Dublin, the post Vatican II vandalisation of church architecture, etc, etc.

donaghs

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

We have not done such a bad job ourselves, considering it. We had the bomb in the Four Courts records office, the burning of the ‘Big Houses’ (a Rembrandt was used as a dartboard in one), destruction of Georgian Dublin, the post Vatican II vandalisation of church architecture, etc, etc.

And someone vandalised those cow sculptures inDublin a few years ago. Come to think of it, we are the exact same as ISIL. Ridiculous!

FluffyAngel

this didnt take long to happen

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2994538/2-000-year-old-artefacts-looted-ISIS-ancient-sites-Iraq-Syria-sold-EBAY.html

pedroeibar1

They are 'down' from eBay - I'd guess that the vendors have had/will have a visit from men in suits. Whoever is selling those is exposed to being prosecuted for aiding the financing of terrorism (which I've heard is a lot easier than to prove 'aiding terrorism'.)