Are funds so scarce that various militaries can't just station soldiers and tanks to guard these places and protect them from these marauding beardies from Hell?
Really! Why do we let these places sit there unprotected? If there was a bunch of soldiers and tanks surrounding places like the ruins of Nimrud or that temple in Palmyra, they might still be standing.
Common sense, man!
Also, these Daesh dorks (and others like them) destroy stuff in order to erase history.....but they're too stupid to realize that it's futile....what, with all the countless movies, videos, photos, books, websites and such with full detailed documentation of these places.
Plus, they sell some of the stuff, so it isn't really iconoclasm.
Let's face it, Daesh is just an organized crime group who just want to rape, murder and destroy for fun without repercussions. They're just pretending it's about religion.
And I image these places can be rebuilt as replicas.
Again, to the militaries or whatever....GUARD THESE PLACES, YOU IDIOTS!