Palmyra Expert Killed for Protecting Civilization

Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.

The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82… highlighted Isis’s habit of looting and selling antiquities to fund its activities – as well as destroying them.…