• Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    This reminds me the destruction of the Parthenon in Athens at the Siege of Acropolis (1687). .

    Basically the Ottomans used the Parthenon as a gunpowder storage, while the Venetian forces sieged the acropolis with cannons and mortars. On the evening of 26 September 1687, a mortar shell hit the building, the resulting explosion killed 300 people and led to the complete destruction of the temple’s roof and most of the walls.