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Re:Museum Items Go Missing by defrost on Saturday December 16, 2023 @06:34AM (#38663507)
ISIS largely destroyed artifacts with explosives and bulldozers and the Christian sites were almost the least of it;

    In 2014, media reported destruction of multiple religious buildings belonging to both Sunni and Shia sects throughout areas captured by IS.

    Among them were the tomb of Ibn al-Athir, Imam Abbas Mosque in Mosul, the Sheikh Jawad Al-Sadiq Mosque, Tomb of Sayyid Ar-Mamut Baba, Qaddo Mosque, Martyrs' Mosque, Saad Ibn Aqeel Shrine in Tal Afar, the Sufi Ahmed al-Rifai Shrine and Sheikh Ibrahim's shrine in Mahlabiya District.
Very old pre Christian sites were also destroyed, but more often looted to sell to collectors to raise money:

    In May 2014, IS members smashed a 3,000-year-old neo-Assyrian statue from Tel Ajaja. Later reports indicated that over 40% of the artifacts at Tel Ajaja (Saddikanni) were looted by IS.
There's a pretty sizable list of what they destroyed and looted in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...

     the group released photos of militants rigging the 1,900-year-old Temple of Baalshamin with explosives and blowing it up. It was one of Palmyra’s best-preserved buildings, originally dedicated to a Phoenician storm god. Now it is nothing but rubble.
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisatio...
Re:Museum Items Go Missing by amiga386 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:30AM (#38664045)
So, the question is, if some usurper takes over a region and becomes de-facto government in that region... and you have artifacts _from_ that region that you took with the legal authority of the previous government... would you hand the artifacts over to the usurpers?