Monday, February 8, 2016

10 Historically Significant Sites Destroyed for Awful Reasons-- Part 2

Continued from Jan. 25, 2016.

5.  And Most of China which has a really staggering lack of preservation because of land development.  Large portions of the Great Wall are gone.

4.  Buddha Statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2001.

3.  Mayan pyramid, 2,300 years old in Belize.  used for gravel.

2.  The Berlin Wall.  Some of it still sands, but not much.

1.  Mecca  Holiest Muslim site.  A victim of urbanization and capitalism.

--Cooter

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