FabSwingers.com forum: The Ancient Arch of Palmyra

By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

What a fantastic, positive story: that enfoneers and archeologists can put forward such a powerful symbol of defiance against the cowardly extremists of ISIL.

And it's a sunny day.

Life is good: rejoice.

Good morning everyone.

Mr.ddc

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It is interesting and although I'm a bit wary of th 'disneyfication' of historical things, this might be the only way to save such things. Maybe a project to photograph everything historical in detail would be a good long term thing to do.

And yes! One in the eye for them! Haha!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Such a softy

It is a meaningful gesture

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Such a softy

It is a meaningful gesture

Always a softy, but my new meds are leaving me 'more europhic' than normal

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"It is interesting and although I'm a bit wary of th 'disneyfication' of historical things, this might be the only way to save such things. Maybe a project to photograph everything historical in detail would be a good long term thing to do.

And yes! One in the eye for them! Haha! "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I liked it. As well as an interesting project, it's also a bit of a "fuck you". Archaeology and defiance, an excellent combination

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36070721

Let's hope that it does stand as a symbol of solidarity and the preservation of people's cultural heritage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am currently studying subjects such as this as a part of my degree, my current module being focussed on World Heritage, including the politics of it and the subject of Palmyra has already been discussed at length...

my feeling is that what remains at Palmyra should be kept as is, as its war ravaged state has also now become a part of its ongoing history. By all means reconstruct Palmyra pre ISIS on a different site in order to contrast the damage inflicted by the ravages of war but ultimately that is a separate issue to the site itself.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Hmmm.

I'm an ancient historian by trade. I take interest in such matters. It's symbolic but it's just bits of stone.

The temple of Bel and the tombs and everything else that was destroyed at Palmyra is a loss to archaeology...

BUT

In the grand scheme of things SO much has already been lost to the world and, imo, some bit of stone are nothing in comparison to the grotesque tragedy of what has happened to the Syrian people and nation.

Before the temple was blow up, ISIS marched the remaining population of Palmyra to the Roman-era theatre and compelled them to watch prisoners being machine-gunned to death by children.

So yeah, so stones are lovely but the damage to the people of Syria affects me more.

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

So yeah, so stones are lovely but the damage to the people of Syria affects me more.

Very true, but sometimes symbols are able to give hope, to draw people back together under their common heritage, to disseminate to a wider audience the plight and suffering of a people, and to show a solidarity that it often lost in the 'anti-immigrant' rhetoric of the right-wing press.

Sometimes a simple "fuck you" is more powerful than any number of machine guns.

Mr ddc

Ps I have no idea who the 'enfoneers' are in the OP

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