Så här der det ut på museet i Mosul efter att Pedofetens käcka stridsmän nu tvingats bort därifrån. Vem vet - en vacker dag kanske Historiska museet, Skansen, Nationalmuseum, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, Louvren, Musée d'Orsay, Uffizierna, Prado och Eremitaget blir föremål för en likartad berikning.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mi...-idUSKBN16I0M2
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After two and a half years under Islamic State control, all that is left in Mosul's museum are the traces of looting and destruction.
Inside the rubble-strewn building, where militants filmed themselves destroying ancient artifacts, the large stone wing of a statue of lamassu -- an Assyrian winged bull deity -- lies on the dusty floor among other broken remnants of the past.
A block engraved with Arabic Islamic calligraphy lies close by, and some Islamic manuscripts have been left undamaged. But almost everything else has gone.
Förödelsen hade varit ännu värre ifall inte en stor del av samlingarna hade hunnit föras bort innan Daesh intog Mosul. De ogudaktiga föremål som Pedofetens tjänare slog sönder var till stor del oäkta kopior.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/12/mi...l-museum-isis/
Citat:
In early 2014, months before ISIS' lightning seizure of Mosul in June of the same year, around 1,700 items from the museum's total collection of 2,400 were moved to Baghdad, not because anyone had any inkling of what was to come, but because the Mosul Museum was set for a major facelift.
In other words, many of the statues smashed by sledgehammer-wielding ISIS fanatics were fakes. A quarter of the museum's collection is lost, like the massive lamassu, but the rest got away.