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In 1826 a fire destroyed much of the church, and the remaining ruins were demolished in 1844. On 25 August 1914, during World War I , the university library of Leuven was destroyed by the Germans against the backdrop of other war crimes . 230,000 volumes were lost, including medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and more than 1,000 incunabula .
It is as if a few particularly attractive pages were ripped from the books of a library, and the remainder burnt. In a word, the context is destroyed without record, so that most of the information vital to the fullest study and reconstruction of the past is irremediably lost to the world." [11]
The footpaths and road have also been worn down by pedestrian activity since excavation. Feral dogs were particularly an issue in Pompeii. The dogs which occupied buildings around the Forum in the 1980s have been removed. Hundreds lived on the site, inadvertently damaging footpaths, roads and walls, as well as proving aggressive towards some ...
The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon's Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction, court documents show, capping more ...
This is a list of destroyed heritage of the United States. The year of demolition is marked in parentheses. This is a list of cultural-heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster , sorted by state.
Due to the remoteness from human habitation and its arid environment, the site remained largely untouched by humans or nature for two millennia. Many of the ancient buildings have been restored from their remains, as have the wall paintings of Herod's two main palaces, and the Roman-style bathhouses that he built.
The Project Lyobaa research team discovered a system of caves and passageways believed to be the “hellish” entrance, also known as the temple of Lyobaa, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca ...
The ruins of this building are a familiar site to anyone who has visited Kansas City’s 18th and Vine Jazz District.