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Sorry, ISIS: smashed statues ‘were fakes’
Saturday, March 14, 2015 8:50
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“They were copies. The originals are all here,” Baghdad’s museum director told Germany’s Deutsche Welle broadcaster.
However, Atheel Nuafi, Mosul’s exiled governor, said many of these items destroyed were not the original but there were real ones that were destroyed after ISIS’s rampage.
“There were two items that were real and which the militants destroyed,” he told Iraq television.
“One is a winged bull and the other was the God of Rozhan.”
He also suspects ISIS militants stole at least seven items before destroying the museum.
The UN heritage body UNESCO was also alerted by the Iraqi authorities over the missing pieces …. http://english.alarabiya.net
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/03/sorry-isis-smashed-statues-were-fakes.html
