The 2,000-year-old arch is all that remains of the Temple of Bel, part of the Syrian Unesco World Heritage site, captured by militants in May.
It will be recreated from photographs, using a 3D printer.
The institute behind the project hopes the arch will draw attention to the importance of cultural heritage.
— BBC
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Damascus first.
It'd be nice if that printer could recreate the bodies and lives of the people who've been shot, immolated, drowned, beheaded or slaughtered in other ways.
so orhan you are posting a prophecy fulfilled (radical christians, i didn't bother checking if that indeed was Damascus) which then reminded me of the book of Revelations, which at some point those in charge should of been removed from the bible books (you know the anthology, old t to new t) but they didn't....
you watch some history channel you will learn that some think Revelations was a book by one of the disciples about the Roman empire at the time....very Slavoj Zizek. in other words the end of the world happened in 100 A.D.....then it happened again in 1000 ish A.D. ...yadada
Revelation 20:5
so in my architectural intepretation, the 1000 years started roughly 2015, so we got to 3015 until it matters again...
now you watch a lot of history channel, you will know we are dealing with Ancient Aliens here....
tooodles
goo Michigan State!
I feel scared whenever I try to simply think of the situation... How come whoever did this are human!!
Print it using the rubble with mashed extremists as the binder.
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