Bamiyan Buddha statues

Islamic State militants bulldoze ancient Nimrud city

By Reuters — March 6, 2015
(REUTERS) Archaeologists compare the assault on Nimrud to the Taliban's destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddha statues in 2001. But the damage being wreaked by the Islamic State to ancient monuments and places of worship is even more relentless and wide-ranging.
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