The real reason Isis is destroying artefacts from Syria

September 03, 2015 15:09

So why is Isis blowing to pieces the greatest artefacts of ancient history in Syria and Iraq? The archeologist Joanne Farchakh has a unique answer to a unique crime. First, Isis sells the statues, stone faces and frescoes that international dealers demand. It takes the money, hands over the relics '" and blows up the temples and buildings they come from to conceal the evidence of what has been looted.

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