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The Ancient Sites Now Under Threat From ISIS in Libya
Newsweek ^ | March 4, 2015 | Jack Moore

Posted on 03/07/2015 10:45:15 AM PST by C19fan

Armed with sledgehammers, chisels and a video camera, ISIS militants took their propaganda campaign to Mosul museum last month, destroying statues and artifacts, dating back to the ancient Assyrian and Akkadian empires, and posting the results online and in slow motion.

The terror group’s impetuous destruction of statues and artefacts in Iraq’s second city, which it has controlled since its march across the Sunni-majority northern regions of Iraq last summer, has caused dismay within the archaeological community.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: albaghdadi; benghazi; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; idolatry; isis; jihad; jihadi; jihadis; libya; romanempire
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Death to Daesh!


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Thanks left that other site.


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