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ISIS Beheaded an 82-Year-Old Archaeologist Who Refused to Reveal the Location of Ancient Artifacts Empty ISIS Beheaded an 82-Year-Old Archaeologist Who Refused to Reveal the Location of Ancient Artifacts

Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:32 pm
"When ISIS took the city they rounded up anybody they considered to be an enemy."

In May, the Islamist insurgent group ISIS seized Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old Syrian city. Not long afterwards, it smashed the UNESCO World Heritage site's cultural relics with sledgehammers, blew up its shrines, and hacked apart the famous Lion of al-Lat, a limestone statue carved in the first century B.C. ISIS fighters bloodied its Roman amphitheater when they used it as a stage to execute 25 captives.

Yesterday, the so-called Islamic State's bloody occupation of the ancient site continued with the beheading of 82-year-old Khaled al-Asaad, a renowned archeologist who had served as the keeper of Palmyra for more than 50 years. Asaad reportedly refused to reveal the location of Palmyra's artifacts to ISIS. After over a month of interrogation, the insurgents removed his head, and then hung his corpse from a column in a main square.................

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