Some of the animal figure and geometric pictographs on the basalt wall are believed to be 2,500 years old. Idaho state archaeologist Ken Reid told the Lewiston Tribune that the damage violates the federal Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.
The graffiti was left sometime in the last two weeks and includes references to marijuana and peace signs.
Joseph Saxon with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a team is being sent in to investigate the vandalism.
Kamikaze attack (top left) on USS Missouri (BB-63), 11 April 1945
The kamikaze strikes spiked from April to June 1945, becoming a central and highly organised part of the last gasp Japanese defence. Waves of planes were sent in – some 1,500 all told – as the Americans landed. The US Navy suffered heavy losses including at least 30 warships sunk or disabled – but there were also near misses. On April 11, a low-flying kamikaze crashed into the side of battleship USS Missouri, its spinning wing causing a fire but only minor damage.
Check out this awesome collection of blueprints and photographs showing the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
After receiving an e-mail from his former student, Yusko and his colleague, German teacher Dianna Altmiller, met with Ciak and they both determined the photos were of the 1936 Nuremberg rally.
“I was able to explain to Kim that every one of the Nuremberg rallies has a theme, and this rally was themed “The Rally of Honor,”’ Altmiller said. “The photos had been taken in 1936, the third year after the rallies had moved to Nuremberg.”
Ciak said each photo is numbered. The number goes up to 100, but 20 photos are missing, she said.
She doesn’t know how her grandfather obtained the images. However, according to Yusko, it was common for military members to collect various souvenirs during their travels.
Environmental Graffiti has posted a set of fascinating colour photographs from WWI.
On this day, ninety-one years ago, the guns that raged over the battlefields of Europe for more than four years fell silent. Never before had slaughter on such an industrial scale been conceived of, and never again would the lives of those who survived, or the collective consciousness of the nations who suffered, be the same again. Environmental Graffiti has compiled a collection of rare colour photographs, illuminating in grim detail the horrors of a war that set a precedent for bloody conflict in the twentieth century.
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