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Erasing history - ISIS publicly smashes artifacts from ancient city of Palmyra - IceWizard - 07-03-2015
Updated 12:51 AM ET, Fri July 3, 2015
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(CNN)—ISIS militants reportedly smashed cultural treasures from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, including an artifact dating back to the second century, according to a statement from the group and Syrian state media.
A man smuggling at least six ancient statues
through Aleppo province was captured by
jihadis and transferred to a self-proclaimed
Islamic court in the ISIS-controlled city of
Manbij, a Thursday release on the group's
social media sites read.
Militants shattered the relics with sledgehammers and lashed the smuggler in a
public square packed with onlookers after the
court ruled the centuries-old objects violated
ISIS' radical interpretation of Islam.
In Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site
dating back 2,000 years, ISIS allegedly
destroyed the Allat God statue on Thursday, a
significant ancient object depicting a lion
catching a deer between its feet.
"ISIS terrorists have destroyed one of the most important unearthed statues in Syria in terms of quality and weight ... it was discovered in 1977 and dates back to the second century A.D.,"Ma'moun Abdul-Karim, director of museums and antiquities, told state-run SANA news agency on Thursday.
The U.N. cultural organization Wednesday
accused the self-proclaimed Islamic State of
"cultural cleansing" as part of a global
propaganda campaign to recruit foreign fighters and dismantle the fabric of societies in the Middle East.
"Violent extremists don't destroy heritage as a
collateral damage, they target systematically
monuments and sites to strike societies at their
core," Irina Bokova, director-general of
UNESCO, said at London's Chatham House.
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