Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
>In recent years, the Islamic State group gutted archaeologically important Iraqi sites in Mosul and Raqqa and Syrian sites in Aleppo and Palmyra.<p>Not to forget Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.<p>It is disheartening to think that, these sites & artefacts which were preserved for thousands of years are destroyed during our lifetime.<p>Perhaps because of its familiarity we value it higher, but powerful people in several parts of the world have been systematically destroying historical objects of value to a culture or civilisation to push forward their ideology.<p>Edit : Edited to be succinct.