In Photos: Destruction of Iconic Monuments at Ancient City of Palmyra

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Palmyra ruins

novel satellite images show that further destruction has happen at Palmyra since the ancient Syrian city was retaken by ISIS last month . The UNESCO World Heritage situation northeast of Damascus reached its vizor between the 1st and 3rd one C A.D.

orbiter imaging flick on Dec. 26 , 2016 , showing the Tetrapylon and Roman dramatics prior to the recent legal injury in Palmyra .

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Satellite imagery snapped on Dec. 26, 2016, showing the Tetrapylon and Roman theater prior to recent damage in Palmyra.

Significantly damaged

persona of the same domain from January 2017 demo significant damage to two of the site ’s major monument , the Tetrapylon and the Roman Catholic theatre , harmonize to the Cultural Heritage Initiatives ( CHI ) of the American Schools of Oriental Research ( ASOR ) .

New war crime

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova called the destruction " a raw war crime and an Brobdingnagian loss for the Syrian masses and for humanity . "

Tetrapylon

Most of the hulk columns of Palmyra ’s Tetrapylon , shown in the foreground here , are now demolished .

Deliberate destruction

ASOR investigator say that the monument intentionally destruct using explosive .

Theater of war

The Roman theater , where ISIS has conducted several executions , also show signs of fresh wrong .

New destruction of Palmyra has significantly damaged two monuments at the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, the red box denotes the area of new damages, as seen on Jan. 10, 2017.

Satellite images showed significant damage to Palmyra’s Tetrapylon and Roman theater in January 2017.

Most of the towering columns of Palmyra’s Tetrapylon, shown in the foreground here, are now demolished.

Satellite images showed that this Roman monument called a tetrapylon in Palmyra has been badly damaged.

The Roman theater in Palmyra is seen here on Feb. 14, 2010, before the Syrian Civil War broke out.

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