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Now savage Islamic State fanatics blow up ANOTHER Syrian temple

Now savage Islamic State fanatics blow up ANOTHER Syrian temple
01.09.2015 09:30
The sick militants blew up the temple of Bel by dynamiting the 2,000-year-old site.

ISIS had already blown up the temple of Baalshamin last week.

Experts feared that Bel was next on the list.

The temple was built in 32AD and was a Unesco World Heritage Site.

It was dedicated to gods worshiped by the Semites - a group of different cultures in the Ancient Middle East.

It had beautiful carvings of zodiac signs and the then-known seven planets.

The demolition is the latest in a series of attacks on Syrian and Iraqi heritage sites.

Dr Robert Bewley from Oxford University thinks that Palmyra will be destroyed "monument-by-monument".

He claimed ISIS is destroying the city as part of its propaganda.

He said: "One fear is that ISIS will do piecemeal damage over the coming weeks to keep the publicity machine running, so it will be a slow but equally destructive approach."

(dailystar.co.uk)

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