Islamists destroyed the ancient Assyrian sculptures in the Museum of Mosul
ARTinvestment.RU   27 февраля 2015

Armed with picks, hammers, drills, radical Islamists have destroyed the most valuable monuments of world culture — sculptures of Assyria and Hellenistic periods

Militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (IGIL) staged a pogrom in the Museum of the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq. According to the degree of damage to the world's cultural heritage, this act of vandalism has been compared with the destruction Lumiansky Buddhas by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 godu@

Jihadists, armed with picks, hammers, and even a drill, broke into the Museum of Nineveh in Mosul and pounced on priceless artifacts Assyrian and Hellenistic periods, Dating back to several centuries BC. The five minute video, posted by IG in the network, we see how they dumped ancient sculptures with pedestals and break them into small pieces. The pogrom was organized and in archaeological sites. One of the victims of the Islamists became famous statue of the Assyrian art - sculpture of a winged chelovekobyk of Nineveh IX century BC, who was standing near the ancient Gate of Negral in Mosule@

"Muslims, these stones behind me is the idols that were worshipped by people in ancient times instead of praying to God," says one of the jihadists on the camera. The so - called Assyrians, Akkadians and other Nations had gods for rain, for agriculture, for the war... and they tried to become closer to him, bringing offerings to them. The prophet destroyed and burned the idols in Mecca with his blessed rukami@

Experts say that among the broken pieces were genuine artifacts of the reconstructed fragments and copies. The Director of the new York Metropolitan Museum of art Thomas Campbell called the destruction of one of the best museums in the middle East disaster. "This mindless attack on great art, history, the human mind is a tragic attack not only on the Mosul Museum, but also to our global commitment to use the art for combining and understanding between people," said Thomas Campbell@

Fate of the Islamic part of the collection of the Museum of Mosul unknown. As far as destroyed the Assyrian sculptures, one of the Islamists said on the video: "Even if they are worth billions of dollars, we don't care". However, experts believe that the jihadists began revealing to destroy the only major work that cannot be exported from the country. All other smaller artifacts they can take out strany@

the Recently adopted UN security Council resolution prohibits buying any cultural values of the IGIL. UNESCO issued a sharp condemnation of the barbaric actions of the Islamists. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova urged to convene an emergency meeting on the situation in Irace@

Sources: artdaily.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru



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