In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.
He was 81 years old. He refused.
Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.
He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.
Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.
They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.
Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.
⚡️⚡️⚡️ U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died unexpectedly — a strong supporter of Ukraine and advocate of tough sanctions against Russia.
The senator was 71 years old.
"the success you've been looking for is hidden in the work you've been avoiding". that quote is crazy because it applies to all forms of gains. financial, fitness, relationships. the life you want for yourself is literally waiting on you, you just have to put in the work first.
🚨 Zohran Mamdani moves to allow all NYC subscriptions to be easily cancelled in just one click.
This will save New Yorkers over $160 million each year.
Cancelling a goal for Norway cus Haaland pushed an English player, but not cancelling England's goal when the ball had previously hit the wire and should've been dropped?
To the Zoomer, the top two seem as quaint as "werewolf" and "vampire" seem to the millennial.
Horror seems silly if you don't know the real fear it's representing. The problems Zoomers face are simulacrum and alienation.