Christianity defeated and wiped out the old faith of the pagans. Then with great fervour and diligence it strove to cast out and utterly destroy every last possible occasion of sin; and in doing so it ruined or demolished all the marvelous statues, besides the other sculptures, the pictures, mosaics and ornaments representing the false pagan gods; and as well as this it destroyed countless memorials and inscriptions left in honor of illustrious persons who had been commemorated by the genius of the ancient world in statues and other public monuments….their tremendous zeal was responsible for inflicting severe damage on the practice of the arts, which then fell into total confusion. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Lives of the Artists.

Some early Christian fanatics destroy Greek and Roman Art (Is this image fake or true?) the image if from a site (http://ethnikoi.org/introenglish.html ) with obviously some radical negative opinions about the Orthodox church. Is this action different than the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan? Often it is easier to use material from old buildings to produce new buildings. In this way temples and other buildings have been used in houses and churches such as the Ptolemies did in Alexandria using material from old Egyptian temples. The Destruction of the Pagan Temples

In the 8^th to 9^th cntury AD actually also Christian Art was destroyed by iconoclasts in Byzantium, who opposed displaying Saints or God in images. Images and info about iconoclasm

Image of Saint Aemilianus (who is said to be famous for his destruction of ancient temples and libraries) holding a hammer.

According to Wikipedia the Zeus Temple in Cyrene was intentionally damaged under orders of Moammar Al Qadhafi in the summer of 1978

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