The Ancient Palace

It's Samarra, again...



As i mentioned before, Samarra is an open-air museum, with the Islamic sites dominating the scene since they are more recently build, and don't need that much excavation and all.



Samarra was the capital city of the Muslim Empire for 70 years, in the 9th Century AD. Baghdad was before that, and returned afterwards as the capital.



A city like this, would have many ancient palaces and buildings, of course, that are wonderfully built, and luckily safe kept until these days... But would they be safe kept to the future generations? There are doubts.



Yesterday, it was announced that one of these ancient palaces, was blown up.



Imagine... Built in the 9th century AD, and blown up today.



I rest my case.