From the web: “Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities”

August 20, 2015 Uncategorized

Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.

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