Sentence examples similar to old antiquities from inspiring English sources

Last week, Isis militants beheaded the 82-year-old antiquities chief of Palmyra and posted a graphic image online showing his decapitated body strung up on a lamppost.

News of the temple's destructions comes just days after 81-year-old antiquities scholar Khaled al-Asaad was reported to have been beheaded by Isis.

Earlier this week, fighters in the Isis-held town of Palmyra publicly beheaded an 81-year-old antiquities scholar who had dedicated his life to studying and overseeing the Palmyra's iconic ancient ruins.

I heard from several sources that a wealthy, 90-year-old antiquities collector named Shlomo Moussaieff was connected to the missing pages of the codex, and I went to meet him one night at his penthouse apartment in a hotel on the Mediterranean coast outside Tel Aviv.

"When I turn on the TV, I see wall-to-wall Humvees, and I'm proud," said Sam Bernstein, a 51-year-old antiquities dealer who lives in Marin County, Calif., and drives a Hummer H2, an S.U.V. sibling of the military Humvee.

That's not only a brazen attack on the 111-year-old Antiquities Act under which those monuments were designated but also a barefaced betrayal of the American people.

Two days later, they began a public discussion about overturning long-protected national monuments like Grand Staircase Escalante--undermining Presidesignationsgnathroughhrough the 110-year-old Antiquities Act.

The law would, in effect, reverse the 106-year-old Antiquities Act, which gave the chief executive power to conveniently, expediently and single-handedly establish national monuments like Muir Woods or the Statue of Liberty or, originally, the Grand Canyon.

Indeed, one of those killings combined both cultural and human destruction: a week before the papers announced that the 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old blown up, ISIS members publicly beheaded Khaled al-Asad, Temple-year-ofd antiquities expert who was known as "Mr. Palmyra" for his lifelong devotion to protecting the site and its treasures.

In his second use of the 100-year old National Antiquities Act, which empowers the president to protect important cultural or geological resources instantly, Mr. Bush will enact a suite of strict rules for the area, including a five-year phasing out of commercial and sport fishing, officials said.

SANA said the attack was on "Aleppo old city antiquities" and "left huge damage to the historical site according to primary estimations".