Now those maniacs have wrecked another site.
ISIS Destroys Khorsabad: Third Archaeological Site In Iraq Wrecked By Islamic State, Report Says
By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT on March 10 2015 6:00 PM EDT
The Temple of the Sibitti in Khorsabad, Iraq (pictured) was the site of Dur Sharrukin, the capital city of the Assyrian Empire in the late 8th century B.C. during the reign of Sargon II. ISIS militants reportedly wrecked the archaeological site. Vivienne Sharp/Heritage Images/Getty Images
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Islamic State militants have reportedly destroyed a third archeological site in Iraq, just days have demolishing Hatra and Nimrud. The Iraqi government began investigating reports Sunday the terror group -- formerly known as ISIS or ISIL -- plundered and wrecked Dur Sharrukin, an ancient Assyrian city in present day Khorsabad about 9 miles from Mosul, the Associated Press reported.
Dur Sharrukin was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II. But the city was abandoned and the capital was moved to Nineveh in 705 B.C. after the Assyrian king’s unexpected death. The archaeological site is in modern Khorsabad, a village in northern Iraq. The palace at Khorsabad is famous for illuminating Assyrian art and architecture thanks to its stylistic innovations, the preservation of paint on its wall reliefs and extensive ancient written documentation concerning its construction, according to research from the University of Chicago.
Reports of the damage at Khorsabad surfaced one day after ISIS militants used explosives and trucks to raze parts of Hatra, a 2,000-year-old city from the Seleucid empire once considered one of the best preserved examples of a Parthian city. The U.N. cultural agency Unesco, which lists Hatra as a world heritage site, condemned the attack Saturday. "The destruction of Hatra marks a turning point in the appalling strategy of cultural cleansing underway in Iraq,” Unesco head Irina Bokova toldReuters
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ISIS Destroys Khorsabad: Third Archaeological Site In Iraq Wrecked By Islamic State, Report Says
By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT on March 10 2015 6:00 PM EDT
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Islamic State militants have reportedly destroyed a third archeological site in Iraq, just days have demolishing Hatra and Nimrud. The Iraqi government began investigating reports Sunday the terror group -- formerly known as ISIS or ISIL -- plundered and wrecked Dur Sharrukin, an ancient Assyrian city in present day Khorsabad about 9 miles from Mosul, the Associated Press reported.
Dur Sharrukin was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II. But the city was abandoned and the capital was moved to Nineveh in 705 B.C. after the Assyrian king’s unexpected death. The archaeological site is in modern Khorsabad, a village in northern Iraq. The palace at Khorsabad is famous for illuminating Assyrian art and architecture thanks to its stylistic innovations, the preservation of paint on its wall reliefs and extensive ancient written documentation concerning its construction, according to research from the University of Chicago.
Reports of the damage at Khorsabad surfaced one day after ISIS militants used explosives and trucks to raze parts of Hatra, a 2,000-year-old city from the Seleucid empire once considered one of the best preserved examples of a Parthian city. The U.N. cultural agency Unesco, which lists Hatra as a world heritage site, condemned the attack Saturday. "The destruction of Hatra marks a turning point in the appalling strategy of cultural cleansing underway in Iraq,” Unesco head Irina Bokova toldReuters
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