Violation in History

You are looking now at Peru, another country that has ancient pyramids besides Egypt. And as bad as Morsi was, he never allowed a construction company to level the pyramids at Giza. By the way, the Great Pyramids are located in GIZA not in GAZA. In fact, if anyone tried to destroy the Pyramids, the number of protesters that would compile would massively out-number Tahrir Sqaure this historic week.

But not so is the case in Peru. El Paraiso, an estimated 5000 year old pyramid, was completely flattened on Saturday. Leaving over 50 centuries of history lost to future generations. There are many ideas that the ancients left us, but not more than a handful of structures. And even fewer completed ones. Even in Giza, the top piece of the magnificently created pyramid is missing.

This pyramid was the grave site to thousands. Sacrificed to local deities in these times when we knew so much (and so little) about science. These chambers stood and could be seen long before Columbus, but now, due to increased trends in the destruction of archaeology, we are losing these magnificent structures.

In modern New York, Penn Station (named after the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company) once stood magnificently in the Big Apple. Inside was a site of luxury and memory for a country that began growing with the modern railway revolution. One of the oldest stations in America, before roads crossed all the way from Maine to the Pacific. Destruction of this historic site began in 1963, and by the end, a disgruntled public realized what a mistake it was. New laws were passed to protect such structures. And in 1978, when Grand Central Terminal in New York was under the same predicament, a court ruled that the station was protected. Laws can change things. Laws can be used to successfully protect history.

Correspondent Ibrahim Abu al-Naggar reports