Posted on Apr 3, 2016
About 40 bodies reportedly found in mass grave in Palmyra | Fox News
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Syrian engineering teams and popular defense groups uncovered a mass grave in a neighborhood in the newly recaptured ancient city of Palmyra, Syria’s state-news agency reported Friday.
The remains of about 40 people, 23 of them women and children, were found in the graves. SANA news agency reported they were killed by Islamic State militants and said some of the bodies were beheaded and bore signs of torture.
Syrian army experts detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by the Islamic State before they were forced out of Palmyra last Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
Reporters were able to tour the archaeological gem that had attracted tens of thousands of tourists every year before the Islamic State captured the city and destroyed most of its Christian artifacts. While, some parts of the site, including the Roman-era grand colonnades and amphitheater appeared relatively untouched, the damage every else was very much visible.
According to the Associated Press, the Arch of Triumph – which was under the Roman emperor Septimus Severus between A.D. 193 and A.D. 211, has been reduced to a pile of stones. The monumental arch once sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient town.
The Temple of Baalshamin and parts of the Temple of Bel, one of the best-preserved Roman-era sites, are also destroyed.
The remains of about 40 people, 23 of them women and children, were found in the graves. SANA news agency reported they were killed by Islamic State militants and said some of the bodies were beheaded and bore signs of torture.
Syrian army experts detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by the Islamic State before they were forced out of Palmyra last Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
Reporters were able to tour the archaeological gem that had attracted tens of thousands of tourists every year before the Islamic State captured the city and destroyed most of its Christian artifacts. While, some parts of the site, including the Roman-era grand colonnades and amphitheater appeared relatively untouched, the damage every else was very much visible.
According to the Associated Press, the Arch of Triumph – which was under the Roman emperor Septimus Severus between A.D. 193 and A.D. 211, has been reduced to a pile of stones. The monumental arch once sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient town.
The Temple of Baalshamin and parts of the Temple of Bel, one of the best-preserved Roman-era sites, are also destroyed.
About 40 bodies reportedly found in mass grave in Palmyra | Fox News
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Don't let little things like this killing and insane destruction distract you from the more immediate concerns of climate change and the possibility of terrorists (read radical Islamists) getting a nuc weapon. Sarcasm
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What they do is so hard for me to comprehend or understand - ISIS is not in anyway a religion and they need to be eliminated MCPO Roger Collins
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BLM and the USA's current "Cancel culture" saw its radical beginning... In Afghanistan... pre 9-11. That is where, IMHO, the shitbird fucknuggit radical ignorant fools here have garnered the idea that by destroying historical monuments, they gathered power and attention -which consolidates power- and to continue to supplement their ignorant pathological ideals, news releases like this one.... will sadly... further empower them that cancelling history is beneficial to all. Sad as Hell. Ignorant as Hell. Proving to all beyond and shadow of doubt ignorance is bliss.
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