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Inside the restoration of Baghdad's cultural showpiece

(10 Aug 2016) LEAD IN The Iraqi National Museum has been restored following damage caused by the 2003 invasion and the Islamic State group. With help from the US, Italy and Japan national heritage dating back thousands of years is now back on display. STORY-LINE Dating back between 1800-613 BC, artefacts such as these could have been lost forever after Baghdad fell to U.S. military forces in 2003. The Iraqi Museum was exposed to crime such as theft and looting, but now many of these treasures have been retrieved and restored. "Most of its antiquities, ruins and furniture were smashed," explains Deputy Minister of Culture, Qais Hussein Rasheed. "We worked hard along with other friendly countries, mainly the U.S., Italy and Japan, to rehabilitate the museum.'' Iraqi officials frequently caution the world that Iraqi ancient antiquities are under threat, especially in more recent years when the Islamic State group took over vast territories in the north and west of Iraq. "Recently, we are facing a new problem which is that the enemy (the extremists) bulldozed and torpedoed the archaeological sites. So we lost more than 150 archaeological sites, temples monasteries and churches dated to the Ottoman reign," says Rasheed. The Islamic state group looted and destroyed several ancient sites in Iraq and Syria as part of its campaign to cleanse the territory it controlled of items the extremists deem as non-Islamic. The militants "bulldozed" the renowned archaeological site of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq. Nimrud was the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that began in about 900 B.C. But thanks to recent restoration Assyrian and other Iraqi artifacts are now once again proudly on display at the Iraqi National Museum. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...