Artistic Palmyra artefacts destroyed
International traffic and destruction of artistic artifacts are impoverishing the cultural heritage of the city of Palmyra in Syria considered one of the most important of the ancient world even though it is not clear whether these findings are originals or copies, at least in the case of six statues photographed while are destroyed for a kind of religious punishment of the polytheism. Some argue that archaeological sites are used as weapons depots and transformed into barracks for strategic reasons but making them in this way become sensitive targets. In Palmyra there was a lavish temple dedicated to the deity Bel, who resided in the stones, whose statue was placed in the most sacred place of the religious building, master of fate and heaven which was also associated with the worship of the Sun and moon, but apparently Palmyra’s citizens prefer one God merciful universal who sends the rain from the heavens.
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Date: 03/07/2015
 article n°: 2879
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