"Nimrud destroyed" Topic

I can't believe this is happening : link

As if this (in 2001) hadn't been bad enough : link

Very sad news, history being erased, the barbarians are truly at the gates…and I sincerely hope that they are totally destroyed in response.

A sad day for the World. It make me wonder about all the people who say all the world's Museum must return there collection to their nation of origins.

It did cross my mind that it was a good thing that this link is in London, and not in Nimrud.

I've been to the British Museum a couple of times and they are amazing

Vile and stomach churning … of course they want us to feel that way as they want to set the Middle East aflame and gain martyrdom for themselves …

Phil

I hope they do indeed achieve the first step to martyrdom…never doubt the power of stupid people in mass numbers.

man is a barbarian, under a thin veneer of civility/civilization.

I had an argument with someone in London about shipping back things like the Elgin Marbles, since I believe they should remain safe within our "british" museum, only last weekend.

I don't like having to have stores of objects away from where they belong, but to save them from barbarians/vandals/philistines/Vikings/ I would lock them away in Antarctica if it would save them from destruction.

I'll repeat myself from an earlier thread. It's a pity more priceless artifacts weren't taken to Western museums at the time of their digs.

Removing artefacts to western museums isn't a foolproof answer either; a large number of central asian buddhist items in German museums were destroyed by allied bombing in WWII. But there is a huge difference in losses through collateral damage as opposed to wilful destruction for supposedly religious reasons, note that any moveable items had previously been looted & sold off to fund ISIS & their nefarious activities.

Beyond comprehension.

On the bright side, the fact that they first attempted to remove and sell everything movable probably helped. The archaeological value of the site layout and large constructions must be sadly impacted, but hopefully a lot of that has already been preserved in photos and diagrams.

There is also a wry irony in one of history's cruelest empires having its remains defiled by one of modernity's cruelest peoples. If only the Assyrians were still around to show ISIS what they think of such an insult…

- Ix

ISIS make the Sassanians seem sensible!!!

The Sassanids were far from barbarians, though you might not want them for neighbours.

Nimrods.

But there is a huge difference in losses through collateral damage as opposed to wilful destruction for supposedly religious reasons, note that any moveable items had previously been looted & sold off to fund ISIS & their nefarious activities.

Kinda like the developers plowing American Civil War battlefields to build expensive housing and more Starbucks…

Enough to make you want to cry.

@Wackmole9 – agreed, I've made several trips to the BM for the sole purpose of seeing the Assyrian reliefs. And the thing that always amazes me is how the Egyptian galleries are heaving with people and one can hardly move – then a little shimmy into the Assyrian galleries and one can find oneself pretty much alone. That's happened more than once.

Now Hatra as well : link

Put me in the Dawghouse Bill, you know what I think of these 'Muhammedns'
As for those that think I'm being intolerant. Eat my shorts

The Sassanians weren't sensible? Odd headgear aside.

Bad enough that they cannot tolerate any other current religion but to go back and destroy artefacts belonging to civilisations pre-dating Islam by millenia beggars belief.

Does anyone wonder why the Egyptians and Iranians are fighting so hard against ISIS? Imagine ISIS taking sledge or jack hammers to the pyramids or sphinx, or Persepolis and Susa. Countries with long national identities seem to fare better than colonial amalgams, against this type wanton vandalism.

Seeing the title, someone from the RAF might have had a fit.

After seeing the Assyrian stuff at the British Museum I always wanted to visit the real sites. :(

This is small potatoes next to the ethnic/religious/social cleansing these maniacs are carrying out but it's still further proof they are completely unhinged.

You can't leave the past as a permanent time capsule but this is where civilisaton began. The manner of the destruction is vile.

Seeing the title, someone from the RAF might have had a fit.

Too late to get upset – all the Nimrods were destroyed in 2010. Leaving the UK an island with no Maritime Patrol Aeroplanes….but that's another story for another time.