MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two ancient monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra were so badly damaged by Islamic State that they can only be rebuilt using substantially new materials, Russian officials said on Thursday.
If that were to happen, many historians would view the monuments as mere replicas, shorn of the ancient heritage of the original structures.
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