Polmyra (Syria)
May 2015
”ISIS” blew it up
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1620
Mosul Museum (Iraq)
June 2014
”ISIS” occupied building and destroyed artifacts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul_Museum
4/27 known Hatrene king sculptures were seen damaged in the ISIS video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Mosul_Museum_artifacts
Aleppo (Syria)
Russian backed Syrian government destroyed historical buildings
- Citadel of Aleppo
- Great Mosque of Aleppo
- Al-Madina Souq
https://www.getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities/part-2/10-bandarin/
Croatian War
Over 450 Serbian Orthodox churches, monasteries, and artifacts were deliberately destroyed
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/13/world/art-in-peril-in-croatia.html
A 30-meter high monument by sculptor Vojin Bakić commemorating the defeat of fascism was blown up with explosives during the 1990s war.
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/10/03/destroyed-in-war-colossal-croatian-anti-fascist-monument-recreated-as-art/
Buddha statues in Bamiyan (Afghanistan)
March 2001 (25 days)
On March 14, 2001, the Taliban publicly announced that the giant Buddha figures had been completely destroyed
Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar issued a decree ordering the elimination of all non-Islamic statues and sanctuaries in Afghanistan
https://www.mei.edu/publications/death-buddhas-bamiyan