Sunday, 8 November 2015

ISIS wiping ancient city off map


The grainy satellite image is harrowing. Where the inner area (cella) of Palmyra's first-century AD Temple of Bel can be made out clearly on the older picture, only a chalky, smudged outline remains on the new. The portal in front of the western entrance can just be seen still standing. But the inner sanctum — with its exquisitely carved Zodiac ceiling — has been razed to the ground. http://goo.gl/HNVJcT

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