This video is unbelievable showing the animals try to destroy the statues and museum (although luckily the real ones have been moved to Baghdad to protect them). Hopefully, more Iranians realize of how their own Hezbolahis are not much different than these animals.
It looks terrible - vandals of the Islamic State attacking ancient Assyrian statues with sledge-hammers.
But, according to archaeologists, most if not all the statues in the Mosul museum are replicas not originals. The reason they crumble so easily is that they're made of plaster.
"You can see iron bars inside," pointed out Mark Altaweel of the Institute of Archaeology at University College, London, as we watched the video together. "The originals don't have iron bars."
According to Eleanor Robson, chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, the majority of original statues have been taken to the Baghdad Museum for safe-keeping.
http://www.channel4.com/news/islamic-state-fighters-smash-historic-statues-in-iraq
It looks terrible - vandals of the Islamic State attacking ancient Assyrian statues with sledge-hammers.
But, according to archaeologists, most if not all the statues in the Mosul museum are replicas not originals. The reason they crumble so easily is that they're made of plaster.
"You can see iron bars inside," pointed out Mark Altaweel of the Institute of Archaeology at University College, London, as we watched the video together. "The originals don't have iron bars."
According to Eleanor Robson, chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, the majority of original statues have been taken to the Baghdad Museum for safe-keeping.
http://www.channel4.com/news/islamic-state-fighters-smash-historic-statues-in-iraq
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