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.Not to forget Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.It is disheartening to think that, these sites & artefacts which were preserved for thousands of years are destroyed during our lifetime.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.Edit : Edited to be succinct.