ISIS took Mosul museum artefacts, the rest lies in ruins
2,606 views · Published 9 March 2017 · 3:44 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Rudaw English · 2017 · People & Blogs
The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul lies in ruins, with exhibition halls housing piles of rubble and the basement filled with ankle-deep drifts of ash. ISIS captured Mosul in 2014 and released a video the following year showing fighters smashing artefacts in the museum with sledgehammers. The extremists view such ancient relics as false idols. Iraqi officials at the time said most of what the militants destroyed were copies, as much of the museum's inventory had been moved to Baghdad for safe-keeping.
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