If you meet the Buddha statue on the road, blow it up...

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

(This photo of an 8th Century BC Assyrian statue excavated from Tell Ajajah, near Hasakah on the Khabour River, was taken in May)

See also:
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2008: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/making-a-difference/looting-iraq-16813540/
2013: http://www.archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/779-national-museum-baghdad-looting-iraq
2014: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-militants-blow-up-jonah-tomb

Comments

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I think the Taliban is okay with them staying buried, thank goodness, and there's no sense in excavating them only to have them destroyed.