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Isil video shows destruction of 3,000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 04/12/2015 8:00:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has released a video showing jihadists smashing, bulldozing and blowing up 3,000-year-old artefacts in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud.

The video depicting the destruction at the Iraqi site shows jihadists using sledgehammers and drills to smash huge alabaster reliefs and a bulldozer to bring down walls.

The jihadists are then shown placing barrels apparently filled with explosives before blowing up three separate areas of the site, one of Iraq's greatest archaeological treasures.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: assyrianempire; assyrians; ferengi; godsgravesglyphs; iran; iraq; israel; letshavejerusalem; nimrud; waronterror
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To: BenLurkin
All religion aside, any jackals that destroy ancient artifacts deserve the worst things in life. I love "old stuff", and the idea of destroying it is just abhorrent to me. I'd get less mad if they were killing kittens in ghastly ways.

(Puppies would be about the same as ancient artifacts. Either way, painful death upon them and their ilk, and maybe even their progeny.)

21 posted on 04/12/2015 11:41:32 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

How can this be???? I thought all cultures were supposed to be equal and everyone was “one” in the world. This report is all lies, I tell you.


22 posted on 04/12/2015 2:05:48 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SunkenCiv

AINA News

Brick By Brick, Person By Person, ISIS is Erasing Assyrians From Their Homelands

http://www.aina.org/news/20150306202218.htm


23 posted on 04/12/2015 5:40:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Beowulf9; SunkenCiv; All

Like the Muslim general who around the 8th century ordered the destruction of the library of Alexandria. He said everything one needed to know was in the Koran


24 posted on 04/13/2015 4:27:37 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

That was the great catastrophe of the Middle Ages (other than the rise of Islam itself); over the centuries the muzzies have continually called for the destruction of the Giza pyramids, and at least one of the caliphs tried, causing damage to Menkaure’s.


25 posted on 04/13/2015 7:38:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: tet68
Just before this trash cut loose and occupied the banks of Upper Mesopotamia I just happened to re-read first hand accounts of the region written in the 1850's by an Anglican minister of his survey of the ancient Christian congregations in and around Mosul. Among the persons he met along the way was Sir Henry Rawlinson, at that time well into his work on the Nineveh tel.

Naturally, I followed Rev. J.P. Fletcher's narrative using modern mapping and photography, learning a great deal along the way about conditions in 1850 and those conditions immediately before these clowns became the latest army to burn and pillage the ancient Christians and their artifacts. Alexander even fought a battle nearby, and his bunch could be considered Modern.

The Mar Jacob Church in Nisibis seemed pretty much the way it looked in 1850, no old the dust and debris outside had half buried the ground floor. And that's just one example, from the Cenotaph of Jonah to a thousand mounds still waiting to be dated.

If there were really important clay tablets or artwork to be easily found and within the range of these idiot's sledge hammers and dynamite, it's very unlikely they aren't already carted off to the British Museum, or to Berlin, or Paris, or Chicago, long before World War I, discounting the cuneiform equivalents to scratch pads and loose leaf school notes or shopping lists.

That's a good thing. Without it we wouldn't have deciphered the older Akkadian and then the Sumerian kings lists. Grave robbing goes back a long way.

Anyway, I highly recommend Rev. Fletcher's 1850 narrative for anyone interested in the area, and the Christians who had lived under Muslim occupation since the seventh century. Even Catholicism was just then doing mission work there. Both Volumes of his highly readable work can be found and downloaded at archive.org

Narrative of a Two Years' Residence at Nineveh,
and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria

Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
By The Rev. J.P. Fletcher - London 1850

26 posted on 04/14/2015 7:47:52 AM PDT by Prospero (omnis caro fenum)
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