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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. A spokesperson appears in the beginning of the video, explaining the ...
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.
The Mosul Museum (Arabic: متحف الموصل) is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during the 2003 Iraq War. [1][2] Founded in 1952, the museum consisted of a small hall until a new building was opened in 1972, containing ancient Assyrian artifacts. [3]
The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s ...
799 CE. Destroyed. 2014. Interior area. 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft) Mausoleum of Yahya Abu al-Qasim (Arabic: مرقد الامام يحيى أبو القاسم, romanized: Mashhad Yahya Abul Kassem) was a historic shrine and mosque located in Mosul, Iraq. In 2014 the mosque and shrine were destroyed by an explosive device claimed by ...
Battles/wars. Ottoman–Persian War (1743–46) Bash Tapia Castle, (Arabic: باشطابيا) also known as Bashtabiya Castle or Pashtabia Castle, is a ruined 12th-century castle located on the western bank of the Tigris river, forming part of the city wall of Mosul, Iraq. It was partially destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ...
Materials. Brick, stone, hazarbaf. The Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Arabic: جامع النوري, romanized: Jāmiʿ an-Nūrī) was a mosque in Mosul, Iraq. It was famous for its leaning minaret, which gave the city its nickname "the hunchback" (Arabic: الحدباء, romanized: al-Ḥadbāˈ). Tradition holds that the mosque was first built in ...
Rekrei, or Project Mosul, is a digital preservation project that uses the collaboration of different sources (crowdsource), primarily photos and images, to help to reconstruct and preserve cultural heritage. Rekrei collects images from lost sites, artifacts, or artwork, hoping to construct 3D models quite similar, if not identical, to original ...