(Washington Post) Andrew Lawler - At the height of the Ottoman Empire, Aleppo was the world's largest metropolis after Istanbul and Cairo. A car bomb last week blew out the windows of the Aleppo Museum, one of the world's best collections of Near Eastern artifacts. Five of Syria's six most important ancient sites reportedly have been damaged, and massive looting of the country's ancient heritage may be underway.
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