Hi Dr. you wrote: "Without the Ancient Near East, without the Sumerians, Egyptians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Persians, Hittites...." Haven't you forgotten a certain nation? Or do you adhere to the Muslim narrative that Jews-Hebrews never lived in the neighbourhood, and a Jewish temple never existed in Jerusalem?

Comment #1, ouch!

The USA is the only country in the world that could have prevented this. But with no red-lines, no action on the ground, no coherent strategy - this is the result. Just talk and peace prizes.

Islam is the cause of all this.

Palmyra predates churches, why mention them... those criminals are obliterating everything in their way, even mosques, not just churches. But this article is about the ancient middle east.

he said -when somebody wants to ignore you it means that you are filling his mind --here is strongly-when you are looking only to the blake spot you want to deny the white dress--

You call yourself a doctor, so i know this will do a flyby on your ego. When you write a well stated defense of cultural history and conclud with, " The Middle East has always been an area of constant change and movement, subjected to various influences and ideologies. However, there has never been a nation, army or culture that systematically tried to obliterate everything that came before. The change that is coming our way thi

All this is the consequence of Saudi and Qatari salafist (i.e. original) islamic propaganda. ISIS's leader is just reenacting his namesake Abu Bakr the first caliph. They had not explosives and now they have.