We've delved pretty far back into history today. Related: Massive 2,000-Year-Old Cat Drawing Discovered In Peru 1 Australian Miners Blew Up A 46,000-Year-Old Site, And Got Nothing Out Of It Less than what Greenpeace got fined, though ( $200,000), and less than the cost of commissioning new art from the Nazca (incalculable, as aliens answered their call and took them away). He ended up paying a $1,550 fine, which is a little more than a typical toll. Vigo said he went off-road because of "a mechanical problem." Another possibility: He made his own route because he wanted to skip paying the toll. We'll take it." Continue Reading BelowĪs you can see, a highway runs super close to the lines, but they're still easy to avoid if you just stay on the road. In 2003, the US military built a base on the ruins.ĭaniel O'Connell "Nice place. And if they didn't, the excavated city of Babylon still has thousands of years of history, going all the way to Hammurabi and beyond. We aren't totally sure if these gardens actually existed, but if they did, we have a good idea where they were. The illustration above is not, in fact, some site in Iraq that existed right before the 2003 invasion but is the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Maarten van Heemskerck Pictured: The world if militaries just minded their own business. So when, say, the US went into Iraq in 2003, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis may have resultantly died, but at least the Americans didn't go out of their way to raze millennia-old historical sites, right? Right? Okay, it sounds like we were being sarcastic there, but the fact is crimes against cultural heritage really are considered a special kind of evil because you're destroying something irreplaceable that's of great significance and that should have outlasted all of us. Since 2001, however, that nook instead looks like this: Phecda109/Wiki Commons The '70s were hard on us all. William Simpson When 1,300 years old you reach, look this good you will not.Ī century later, they'd undergone some weathering. ![]() Here's what the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan looked like, still going strong in 1889: More than 500 years - they were built in the sixth century. The Buddha statues we want to discuss today were built 500 years before even that Japan statue. The US is "centuries old," but then you run into a bronze Buddha in Japan that's 500 years older than the US. But when we're talking giant statues, "centuries old" is still a pretty broad timeframe. In China and Burma and Thailand and Sri Lanka, you'll see these huge sculptures of the holy man, some of them marvels of modern engineering, and others centuries old. ![]() If you travel through Asia, you'll see a lot of people are fans of giant statues of Buddha. 5 The Taliban Blew Up Afghanistan's Giant Buddhas
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