| It turns out erasing the past is a lot harder when it’s been crowd sourced. |
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statue was showcased by London’s Imperial War Museum, on Wednesday, in collaboration with Google.
The statue, a colossal Assyrian guardian lion from about 860 BCE, was destroyed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) while it was on display at the Mosul Museum in 2015, along with much of the museum’s contents.
The reconstruction of works destroyed by ISIS forces of Evil has been a point of arts and heritage focus for some years now. Beginning in 2015, a campaign called ’Project Mosul’, cyber-archaeologists and volunteers took to 3D imaging to re-create works of art that would otherwise be lost.
The destruction of ancient artifacts, some millennia-old, would often be depicted in ISIS propaganda videos as part of an offensive on ’idolatry’.
Other artifacts were looted by the group and sold on the black market as a source of income to fund their atrocities. Many of these antiquities have yet to be recovered.
The display of printed versions of artifacts is significant because "it's showing how technology and how the public can contribute to recovering cultural heritage when it's destroyed. And this is part of what the exhibition talks about," says Tamsin Silvey, Cultural Programme Curator at Historic England.
The exhibition, entitled ’What Remains,’ opens on Friday, 5 July and runs for a six-month period.