ISIS militants have beheaded an 82-year-old archaeologist who had been
in charge of overseeing the ancient site at Palmyra in Syria, according
to reports....Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told
Reuters that the family of Khaled Asaad had informed Abdulkarim that
Asaad had been beheaded earlier in the day and his body hanged from a
column in the town's main square.
Abdulkarim said that Asaad had been held and interrogated by members of
the terror group for over a month before his death. The official said
that Asaad's captors had been looking for information about where the
town's treasures had been hidden to save them from ISIS, but they had no
success getting the information from the scholar.
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