Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site

[Esmeralda]

Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru


Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru - Bloomberg

Should there be an international law against such destruction? It seems this kind of destruction happens in poor countries, or because of wars, or for political reasons. This is a terrible shame, this loss of history and past civilizations.

 

[bodecea]

Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru


Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru - Bloomberg

Should there be an international law against such destruction? It seems this kind of destruction happens in poor countries, or because of wars, or for political reasons. This is a terrible shame, this loss of history and past civilizations.

Doesn't surprise me...property developers will do anything.

 

[Katzndogz]

8 years in prison doesn't seem long enough.

 

[Sallow]

Unreal.

 

[konradv]

Unfortunately it happens all too often. Remember the Taliban blowing up ancient Buddhist statues?

There's also the case of a Roman town in Turkey that's being flooded by a dam project.

Roman ruins in Turkey to be flooded by dam project | Gadling.com

 

[Mr. H.]

8 years in prison doesn't seem long enough.

In a Peruvian prison?

 

[westwall]

Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru


Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru - Bloomberg

Should there be an international law against such destruction? It seems this kind of destruction happens in poor countries, or because of wars, or for political reasons. This is a terrible shame, this loss of history and past civilizations.

Yes, there should be. These assholes should be forced to break big rocks into small rocks for the rest of their lives....in prison...

 

[Yurt]

Unreal.

if it was a circa two thousand year old cross

you would cheer and break out the champagne

 

[waltky]

Hidden pyramid found in Egypt...

New Remains of Millennia-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt
April 4, 2017 - A top antiquities official says an Egyptian excavation team has discovered the remains of a new pyramid that dates back to the 13th Dynasty, some 3700 years ago.

The head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afifi, said in a statement Monday that the remains were located north of King Sneferu's bent pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis south of Cairo. Due to the bent slope of its sides, the pyramid is believed to have been ancient Egypt's first attempt to build a smooth-sided pyramid. The necropolis was the burial site for courtiers and high-ranking officials.

Adel Okasha, the head of Dahshur necropolis, said that the remains belong to the inner structure of the pyramid, including a corridor. Other remains included blocks showing the interior design of the pyramid.

New Remains of Millennia-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Unfortunately it happens all too often. Remember the Taliban blowing up ancient Buddhist statues?

There's also the case of a Roman town in Turkey that's being flooded by a dam project.

Roman ruins in Turkey to be flooded by dam project | Gadling.com

Yep, what the Taliban did was dispicable, and anyone purposely destroying such monuments of past civilizations should be strung up.

A French soldier shot the nose off the Sphinx, wonder if the guy was ever punished for that.

 

[konradv]

Unfortunately it happens all too often. Remember the Taliban blowing up ancient Buddhist statues? There's also the case of a Roman town in Turkey that's being flooded by a dam project. Roman ruins in Turkey to be flooded by dam project | Gadling.com

Yep, what the Taliban did was dispicable, and anyone purposely destroying such monuments of past civilizations should be strung up. A French soldier shot the nose off the Sphinx, wonder if the guy was ever punished for that.

The Sphinx's nose was damaged long before Napoleon's time, so the French artilleryman is off the hook.

What happened to the Sphinx’s nose? | Blog

 

[Old Rocks]

Unfortunately it happens all too often. Remember the Taliban blowing up ancient Buddhist statues?

There's also the case of a Roman town in Turkey that's being flooded by a dam project.

Roman ruins in Turkey to be flooded by dam project | Gadling.com

Remember when Westmoreland put no guards at the museum in Baghdad? How many mounds were destroyed without an archaeologist ever seeing it in the mid-West? Every culture does it to some extent, some do it a great deal more than others.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Mummies were burned as fuel in locomotives during the 19th century. They were so numerous companies dug them up and sold them as fuel. It's easy to desecrate someone else's dead relatives and monuments. Human beings have a penchant for not giving a shit about their fellow humans.

 

[Claudette]

Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru


Bulldozer Destroys Pyramid at 5,000-Year-Old Site in Peru - Bloomberg

Should there be an international law against such destruction? It seems this kind of destruction happens in poor countries, or because of wars, or for political reasons. This is a terrible shame, this loss of history and past civilizations.

I agree. What a shame. A 5,000 year old pyramid destroyed. History gone.