When Islamic State gunmen stormed the Mosul Cultural Museum and filmed themselves taking sledgehammers to 3,000-year-old Assyrian statues in 2015, museum director Zaid Ghazi watched the images online aghast.
Mr. Ghazi was at his home in Mosul, unable to go to work since the militants had seized the city, one of Iraq’s largest, and made it the crown jewel of their self-proclaimed caliphate. He later learned that Islamic State militants had set fire to the museum’s library of 25,000 books.The museum is a symbol of a multicultural version of Iraqi society that Islamic State tried to obliterate during the three years it ruled Mosul before.
Today, Iraqi authorities, along with Mr. Ghazi and international supporters including the Smithsonian Institution, have begun a painstaking process of rebuilding the museum and restoring its place as a vital center of culture in Iraq. The museum has reopened for individual art events since 2019, but is now closed as administrators plan the next phase of its rehabilitation, which is expected to take years.
Uuh it's gonna Happen again
This is a real tragedy because a lot of very ancient history can be found in this region. A lot of our history as we know it needs to be rewritten with new understanding.
That's a shame. Pre-Islamic history is the best history. It was all downhill once Islam took over.
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