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It's so sad that a region so blessed with the treasures of early human civilizations is also among those most troubled by conflict destroying history's greatest monuments...





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Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq

~Once the largest mosque in the world, built in the 9th century on the Tigris River north of Baghdad..
The mosque is famous for the Malwiya Tower, a 52-meter minaret with spiraling ramps for worshipers to climb. Among Iraq's most important sites, it even featured on banknotes. The site was bombed in 2005 in an insurgent attack on a NATO position, destroying the top of the minaret and surrounding walls.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4401577.stm)





The Buddhas of Bamyan, Afghanistan


*The most spectacular legacy of Buddhism in the war-torn country, among the tallest standing Buddhas in the world -- the larger at 53 meters, the other 35 -- had survived over 1,500 years since being carved out of sandstone. The Taliban considered the monuments idolatrous and destroyed them with dynamite. http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/718





The ancient city of Bosra, Syria

*Continually inhabited for 2,500 years, and became the capital of the Romans' Arabian empire. The centerpiece is a magnificent Roman theater dating back to the second century that survived intact until the current conflict. Archaeologists have revealed the site is now severely damaged from mortar shelling.http://ghn.globalheritagefund.com/uploads/documents/document_2107.pdf
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