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In a video shared on 26 February 2015, ISIL entered the Mosul Museum with the purpose of destroying artifacts they deemed "idolatrous". Members of the group can be seen pushing over many statues, while using jackhammers and sledgehammers to damage the faces of others.
Thus, all artifacts destroyed in Mosul are original except for four pieces that were made of gypsum". [citation needed] Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, pictured in 2007. IS bulldozed and destroyed the city in March 2015. On 5 March 2015, IS reportedly started the demolition of Nimrud, an Assyrian city from the 13th century BC.
ISIL said that its statues were against Islam and threatened to destroy the museum's contents. [4] [5] On 26 February 2015, a day after burning books from Mosul libraries, [6] the group released a video showing the destruction of artifacts in the museum and at the archaeological site at Nimrud, claiming the sites promoted "Idolatry".
The famous leaning al-Hadba minaret was destroyed in the battle to liberate Mosul in 2017 [Reuters] Historic buildings in Mosul, including churches and mosques, are being reopened following years ...
Following the fall of Mosul, an estimated half a million people escaped on foot or by car during the next two days. [6] Many residents had trusted the Islamic State fighters at first in the city, and according to a member of the UK's Defence Select Committee, Mosul "fell because the [predominantly Sunni] people living there were fed up with the sectarianism of the Shia-dominated Iraqi government."
Numerous ancient and medieval sites and artifacts, including the ancient cities of Nimrud and Hatra, parts of the wall of Nineveh, the ruins of Bash Tapia Castle and Dair Mar Elia, and artifacts from the Mosul Museum were also destroyed. However, from 2018, a year after IS was defeated and driven out of Mosul, many churches, mosques and ...
Parts of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cyrene were destroyed in August 2013 by locals to make way for homes and shops. Approximately 200 vaults and tombs were leveled, as well as a section of a viaduct dating to the third century BC. Artifacts were thrown into a nearby river. [9]
Along the west bank of the Nile River, archaeologists discovered rock-cut tombs and burial shafts up to 3,600 years old. Many of the tombs featured a range of artifacts that could redefine what ...