Surgeon looting and destruction remaining in Mosul, Iraq Museum

Surgeon looting and destruction remaining in Mosul, Iraq Museum

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After two and a half years of its occurrence under the control of the organization Daesh became all the rest of the Mosul Museum is the effects of the looting
and destruction.
The inside of the building in which the scattering of debris and where pictures militants themselves as they are destroying artifacts lying in a huge statue of a winged bull known as the Amaso on the ground amid the remnants of other effects smashed.
The winged bulls with human figures , are placed at the entrances of Assur Nasir Pal II palace of the king of the Assyrian Empire in the ninth century BC temples close to the site.
And near Amaso was a mass of carved calligraphy Islamic Arab and some Islamic manuscripts dumped without becoming damaged. But otherwise almost everything was
destroyed.
Lt. Col. Abdul Amir al - Muhammadawi of the rapid reaction force , which seized control of the museum building , a few days ago that what is not stolen was
destroyed.
He said "dozens of artifacts from the Assyrian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Sumerian civilization and culture of the Persian Empire and Romania, as well as the civilization of the Nile Valley ... have been stealing these pieces large and destruction that are difficult to carry and smuggled out of Iraq."
He added that " the historical library was burned completely ... and theft of important manuscripts in full ... and the rest
was destroyed."
And pictures of members of the militant group video themselves and they are destroying some of the contents of the building , including statues priceless heavy Bmtarq 2015 in the context of major media campaign to erase the cultural history which contrasts with their interpretation of the teachings of
Islam.
A source of income
, but they are also used as a source of income effects, acts of exploration discovered after retreating recently under a mosque in another part of Mosul showed they cared looted artifacts.
And contradicts their efforts to avoid damaging some artifacts with the destruction of archaeological sites across what it called Daesh ranging from desert city of Palmyra , and the end of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud , south of Mosul.
The United States said that the looting and smuggling of artifacts was an important source of income for the militants. In July 2015 the Government of Iraq and the US authorities handed over a large collection of artifacts , which said it seized from the elements of an Islamic state in Syria.
And expelled US - backed militant group from most Iraqi cities Iraqi campaign in 2014 and 2015. Have been battling Islamic state is currently in the last major urban strongholds in the western part of Mosul , where there is a museum.
And blackened exterior of the building, with a Roman - style columns, due to the shelling and bombings and rocket barrage of bullets.
As it has been the looting of the Chaldean Catholic Church and neighboring almost completely cracked the altar of the church from the middle to the bottom.
The body of a regulation Daesh fighters lying in front of the church on Saturday , days after the start of the latest advancement to the
front.
Iraqi soldiers and removed the dust from above the stone slabs lying on the historic land of the museum , which is located on the outskirts of the ancient city of Mosul.


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