To determine the most war damaged cities in history, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed historical reports on cities that have been decimated by conflict, restricting our research to the last 200 years.

The palace was destroyed by colonial powers France and Great Britain in 1860 during the Second Opium War. What remains from the palace is now a park. 24/7 Wall St.

"They destroyed our identity, and our history," Ikhlas Abdel Latif Ahmed, director of museums at Sudan's National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, told the BBC's Newsday programme.

A tiny owl created by artists Slava Leontyev and Anya Stasenko perches in a partially destroyed wall in the film Porcelain War (2024). ©Picturehouse 2024. Brian Boucher January 8, 2025 Share ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that almost half of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the war there, a figure that also accounts for almost 70 percent of its 439,000 homes.. The ...

After nearly four months of war, every site we visited then is now destroyed, badly damaged, or inaccessible. We could not survey this ourselves. Journalists cannot enter Gaza during the war.

That wall has lent its name to everything from the nearby marketplace to a ... Reporters also reviewed footage taken in the same neighborhoods after the war to show what was damaged or destroyed.