Palmyra: is saving priceless antiquity as important as saving people?

As Islamic State threatens more of Syria’s architectural splendours, it’s so clear that these stones are worth crying over – and guarding by air strikes if it comes down to itDo ancient ruins matter compared with human lives? That is the painful question whenever an archaeological site comes under threat from the hammers and bulldozers of the terrorist army Islamic State. It is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario. IS gets its hands on one of the world cultural treasures in which Syri