An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest

Re:An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest by WildUtah on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:48PM (#13314412)

Even in the USA, grave robbing is tolerated with only minor penalties even in serious cases. [0] There is no protection for most kinds of archaeological treasures anywhere in the world and the limited non-renewable resource of our past as a species is being steadily wiped out by yahoos for a bit of weekend drunk fun or beer money.

And that doesn't even begin to address systematic ideological Moslem terrorist attacks against Palmyra, Bamiyyan, and many other historic treasures.

[0]http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700182158/Overkill-or-jus...

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Re:An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest by secstate on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:25PM (#13315184)

Grave robbing and the destruction of historical artifacts are definitely an issue, but you should refrain from using the word Moslem, and in it's place use Muslim. The meaning is actually very different, and rather insulting in Arabic:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524

EDIT: It would appear the "insult" line is a bit of a stretch given how Arabic works, and is perhaps not really that insulting. Yet still, modern scholarship suggests the appropriate transliteration of the word from Arabic is Muslim, not Moslem.

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Re:An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest by ajmurmann on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @12:58AM (#13315996)

I wonder why there aren't stronger laws against that. To me destroying our cultural heritage is one of the worst crimes one can commit. I'd be all for draconic punishment of destruction of historic artifacts. Is that really such a rare view?

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