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following excerpts are from AINA.org:
Islamic
State (ISIS) has burned 1,500 historical manuscripts in Iraq and sold
Assyrian sculptures on the black market, the country's Ministry of
Tourism and Antiquities revealed yesterday.
The
Undersecretary of the Minister of Tourism Qais Hussein Rashid said
that the province of Nineveh in northern Iraq, which is under ISIS
control, is at the forefront of Iraqi provinces that contain the
largest number of archaeological sites.
Speaking
at a symposium held by the General Secretariat of the Council of
Ministers in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism at the
Council headquarters in Baghdad, under the slogan "ISIS: The
Enemy of Humanity, History and Civilisation", Rashid pointed out
that the militants illegally dug into the archaeological sites and
sold the pieces they found, noting that his ministry was able to stop
the sale of some Iraqi antiquities in some international auctions.
While
he listed the sites that were destroyed, he reported that ISIS blew
the shrine of Ibn Al-Atheer ten days after they occupied Mosul, and
the Shrine of the Prophet Yunus, under which important Assyrian
antiquities exist.
He
added that the militants have sold Assyrian sculptures and burned
1,500 manuscripts, expressing his fears that ISIS may demolish 520
heritage houses in Mosul.
Minister
of Tourism and Antiquities, Adel Shershab, said ISIS had destroyed
the archaeological areas in Iraq.
Shershab
called on "friendly countries to take a genuine stand to restore
the stolen antiquities."
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ISIS Burned 1,500 Historical Manuscripts and Sold Assyrian Sculptures
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