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10 historical objects ruined by morons
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list we’ll be looking at more historical
objects and artifacts that were
destroyed by some pretty inconsiderate
ignorant or clumsy people we will be
ranking our picks based on the
importance of the site and/or artifact
and the level of idiocy involved in its
destruction number 10 the Nazca lines
the Nazca lines are brilliant artistic
designs made in the desert grounds of
southern Peru the designs were created
between 500 BC and 500 AD and range from
geometric patterns to depictions of
human animal and natural life
these can stretch over 1,000 feet in
length and can clearly be seen from the
air and from nearby hilltops however
many of the lines have been damaged in
recent years by squatters construction
machinery careless Greenpeace activists
who walked over the site with sneakers
off-road vehicles and a truck driver who
accidentally drove over numerous lines
how long does it take for the nature to
lift again all that sand no and take an
expose again and create the patina
hundreds of years number-9 done stirs
cobblestone paths Dunster Somerset is
known for being an extremely well
preserved example of a medieval English
village it houses a 1,000 year old
castle and contain beautiful cobblestone
paths that dated back to the Bronze Age
however after numerous reports of people
tripping on the ancient stones the
villages council decided to rip up the
millennia old cobblestones and replace
them with smoother paving stones the
villagers who initially supported the
idea then showed their intense hatred of
the new paving stones by complaining to
the media the council then decided to
rip up the slabs at significant cost and
replace them with stones that fit more
with the villages aesthetic number 8 a
5,000 year old rock carving well we
suppose they had good intentions the
Norwegian island of true houses a 5,000
year old rock carving depicting a man on
skis this carving is one of the world’s
earliest indications of skiing and it
inspired the symbols of the 1994
Lillehammer Olympics however it was
ruined in 2016 when two teenagers carved
over it in an attempt to make it appear
brighter and clearer the teenagers not
realizing what a serious infraction they
have committed turn themselves in amidst
the intense media frenzy the two then
faced criminal charges and prosecution
under the country’s cultural heritage
Act number seven King Tut’s beard chalk
this up to Tutankhamun’s curse
Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh who
ruled from 1332 to 1323 BC his tomb was
finally discovered in 1922 and the mummy
of Tutankhamun was uncovered three years
later while his chin was initially found
broken off his death mask it was
permanently reattached in 1944 or so
everyone thought in 2014 it was
accidentally broken off and hastily
glued back on the process that caused
irreparable scratches to the beard after
people began to notice the botched glue
job the mask was professionally fixed
and eight people faced criminal charges
for their negligence in repairing the
priceless mask with superglue number six
a 126 year old statue of domes sebastian
in the first and here we have another
tragic case of a selfie
ruining a beloved piece of art a
child-size statue of Portuguese King Dom
Sebastian the first stood outside the
rocío railway station in Lisbon Portugal
this statue lasted for 126 years before
it literally fell to a selfie a 24 year
old man climbed the facade outside the
station to take a picture with the
statute however he accidentally knocked
the statue over and it shattered to
pieces upon contact with the ground the
man tried to run away but he was
apprehended by police and faced
prosecution for destroying a century-old
artefact number 5 a Neolithic tomb in
2015 workers in the Spanish town of
Cristo vaatu Thea accidentally filled in
a 6,000 year old tomb with concrete and
topped it off with a picnic table they
thought the tomb slabs were a stone
bench that had fallen into disrepair so
they wanted to erect a fancy picnic
table in its place the town’s mayor said
that he wasn’t aware of the site’s
historical significance and the site
wasn’t marked or protected in any way
people better have some damn good
picnics on that bench because it cost
history a 6,000 year old tomb to put it
there number 4 the Second Temple of
Artemis when the original Temple of
Artemis was destroyed in a flood it was
rebuilt in a more extravagant manner
around 550 BC it stood nearly 400 feet
long and 150 feet wide
contained 40 foot tall columns and was
allegedly the first Greek temple to be
made from marble it was a notable
attraction for almost 200 years but it
was burned
ground in 356 BC by some snot-nosed Punk
named Harris Stratus who simply wanted
to be famous he was subsequently
tortured on the rack and executed and
his name was banned from being spoken or
written with the intention of erasing
him from history it didn’t work
number three Troy Troy is an ancient
city depicted in Homer’s Iliad said to
be the site of the famous Trojan War the
historical city of Troy is located in
modern-day Turkey and was partially
excavated by heinrich schleimann in the
1870s however slamming wasn’t a great
archeologist and he proceeded to blast
away the walls and layers of Troy and
carved massive trenches in the ground
that remained to this day as one scholar
stated slamming quote destroyed a
phenomenal amount of material and this
is why inexperienced archaeologists are
not allowed to excavate millennia old
cities you violated my command normally
that was a mistake number two Buddha’s
of Bamiyan the Buddha’s of Bamiyan were
two enormous statues of Buddha that were
carved out of a cliffside in Afghanistan
the statues were carved in the 6th
century and they were reportedly
decorated with elaborate jewelry by the
Year 630
the statues existed for over a thousand
years until they were destroyed by the
Taliban in March 2001 the statues were
bombarded with anti-aircraft weaponry
dynamite artillery and mines before the
Taliban repelled down the cliff and
placed explosives inside the monuments
the commander of the Taliban Mohammed
Omar stated that it has given praise to
Allah that we have destroyed them more
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two young American women California
carved their initials and a full name
into the Coliseum then proceeded to
cement the Acton stone with the selfie
of their handiwork number one many
ancient sites destroyed by Isis
throughout the years Isis has destroyed
many notable ancient sites with
bulldozers and Explosives they’ve
destroyed religious sites like the Mara
Leon and Marvin and monasteries and the
mosque of the prophet yunus they’ve
destroyed numerous historic pieces of
architecture including the Imam d’Or
mausoleum they’ve bulldozed historic
cities like Nimrod an Assyrian city that
flourished between 1350 and 610 BC and
Nineveh which was at one point the
largest city in the world even UNESCO
World Heritage Sites weren’t safe as the
site of hot rod was extensively damaged
by Isis in 2015 do you agree with our
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