Cardius Maximus
Syria 2010
The main thoroughfare of the ancient city of Apamea. Notice the huge stones with which the street is paved. Those stones were the paving material for the famed Roman roads.
These priceless ruins are being vandalized under cover of the war in Syria. Regarding vandals, I read an interesting comment in the “Wall Street Journal” today by Boris Johnson who had written in the “Telegraph”:
“Let us give thanks again for the British Museum and the extraordinary efforts of Austen Henry Layard in the 19th century. It was he who moved those huge bearded statues from Nimrud to London where then can be seen and enjoyed to this day. If they hadn’t come to London, they would now be smashed to smithereens by deranged Islamist ideologues.”
I’m sure you saw the recent photos of the “deranged ideologues” smashing those statues in the ancient city of Nimrud, Iraq. Don’t you wonder what goes on in their minds as they wield those sledgehammers?