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 groups impetuous destruction of statues and artefacts in Iraqs 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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Death to Daesh!
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