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minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoThere are occasions when it’s useful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_the_Islamic_State I’m not saying it always is but there are a lot of very unstable places run by people who just don’t care about this stuff. And at the time it was stolen it was either the British museum, someone’s private collection, or the Vatican.
minus-squarechuymatt@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 day agoBut who made them unstable?
minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoWell, in the case of Syria, decades of oppression under the Assad family combined with religious ideology.
There are occasions when it’s useful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_the_Islamic_State
I’m not saying it always is but there are a lot of very unstable places run by people who just don’t care about this stuff. And at the time it was stolen it was either the British museum, someone’s private collection, or the Vatican.
But who made them unstable?
Well, in the case of Syria, decades of oppression under the Assad family combined with religious ideology.
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