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May 11, 2023 · The deliberate cultural vandalism committed by Islamic State (IS) militants shocked and appalled the world after they took over Mosul in Iraq in 2014. Now, the restoration of the recaptured...
Mar 3, 2021 · Six years ago last week, the world watched in horror as ISIS forces took sledgehammers to archaeological treasures at Iraq’s Mosul Cultural Museum, smashing historic Assyrian sculptures to ...
Apr 15, 2019 · Wars and blood, instead of peace, doves, and flowers, dominated and shaped Mesopotamian history. Iraq, the legitimate heir of this legacy (by the order of destiny), the core of the Cradle of Civilizations, still bleeds. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad was officially opened on June 14, 1926 CE.
Mar 9, 2015 · Iraqi archaeologists say ISIL looted the museum before destroying it, but many artefacts were stored safely elsewhere. An ISIL fighter uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at a ...
Feb 19, 2021 · The Mosul Cultural Museum in Iraq burst into global consciousness in February 2015 when ISIS, the extremist, terrorist organization locally known as Daesh, posted videos of its adherents...
Jul 5, 2023 · When the museum fully reopens, many of the objects on display will be those saved from destruction when they were moved to the National Museum in Baghdad before the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Aug 1, 2005 · When American troops entered Baghdad in April 2003, hordes of looters rushed into the Iraq Museum, repository of the world's greatest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities, and stripped the...
