Ancient buildings, even ruins, are so rare because mankind has a tendancy to war. The Roman Empire covered the Mediterranean basin. Most everything that existed is gone.
ISIS is right up there with the Vandals, Visigoths, and Huns. They are just late to the party.
so the mohammedans (moslems) are destroying everything that is of any value within the areas they control.
Makes it far easier to nuke them as there’s nothing there to save anyway.
Remembering the value of what the neutron bomb would bring... saving real estate while destroying every living thing around it.
http://looklex.com/e.o/ridda_ar.htm
Lot’s of sites discuss the Muslim Apostasy Wars.
It’s all about the killing, sex, violence, and rape
War in Arabia 632-636, between the Muslims of Mecca and tribes around the peninsula.
With the death of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in 632, communities in the outskirts of the early Muslim heartland refused to accept the supremacy of the new Muslim ruler, Caliph Abu Bakr. ....When the war is named Ar-Ridda, this means “Apostasy War”.
There are at least two explanations to the war. One states that there were several prophets in Arabia, who did would not accept the legitimacy of Muhammad and his followers. These used the death of Muhammad to try to break free from the control of Mecca.
The other explanation is that local rulers that were forced to formally become Muslims by armed missionaries had in reality not accepted Islam, nor the Islamic leaders. Their rebellion against Mecca was merely a war to reclaim lost independence.