Scars of looting, destruction all that remain at Mosul museum

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http://cdmagurus.com/cron.php?rand=1489361758 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/scars-looting-destruction-remain-mosul-museum-163310297.html)By Kawa Omar MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - 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.



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