ISIS militants destroy artifacts from ancient Assyrian era
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The ISIS group elements have demolished the Mosul museum and smashed its ancient artifacts and sculptures, according to a video released by supporters of the group on Thursday.
The video, which was published by supporters of the ISIS group, has shown a group of men attacking and destroying ancient statues and sculptures dating to the ancient Assyrian era in the Mosul museum.
In the video, militants walk through the museum carrying sledgehammers and reducing artifacts into pieces. “These ruins that are behind me, they are idols and statues that people used to worship instead of God,” one militant said in the video.
Noteworthy, the Mosul museum was built in 1952 and it contained some of the oldest cultural and religious artifacts of the Chaldean and Assyrian civilizations and that which have a great cultural and historical significance.
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