Massive material damage in Aleppo National Museum due to terrorist rocket attack

Aleppo National Museum sustained considerable damage following a terrorist attack with rocket shells by takfiri (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist organizations.

UNESCO welcomes re-opening of Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad

UN,2 March 2015 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has congratulated Iraqi authorities for the 12-year effort to re-open the Baghdad Museum, containing artefacts dating back 7,000 years as having “tremendous significance as a response to the deliberate destruction of the country’s other priceless pieces conserved in the Mosul Museum and those in the region of Nineveh.”

Iraq reopens national museum in response to heritage destruction by ISIS/ISIL

Iraq on Saturday reopened its national museum, apparently in response to the mass destruction of ancient artifacts by Islamic State (IS) group in the northern city of Mosul.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed to hunt down those who destroy and smuggle the ancient artifacts in the reopening ceremony held in the museum, which is located in central Baghdad, capital of the country.

Iran offers to protect Iraqi artifacts after militant attack

Iran has offered to safeguard potentially at-risk Iraqi artifacts after a video released by the Islamic State group showed its militants using sledgehammers to smash relics in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.

Moscow denounces destruction of historic artifacts by jihadists in Iraqi Mosul museum

The destruction of historic artifacts in the central museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul by terrorists is an act of vandalism, says a Russian Foreign Ministry statement released on Friday...

Egypte: l'UNESCO déplore les dégâts causés au patrimoine culturel.

Les pillages du Malawi National Museum de Minya et la destruction d'églises et de mosquées risquent de porter préjudice au patrimoine culturel de l'Egypte, a déclaré lundi la directrice générale de l'UNESCO Irina Bokova.

"Je condamne avec fermeté les attaques contre les institutions culturelles du pays et le pillage de ses biens culturels. Il s'agit de dommages irréversibles pour l'histoire et l'identité du peuple égyptien", a indiqué Mme Bokova dans un communiqué mis en ligne sur le site de l'UNESCO.

Serbia, Bulgaria Museums Reject FYROM' s Plea For Copies

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Serbian and Bulgarian museums holding archeological treasures found on FYROM's soil have turned down a FYROM's request for them to hand over copies....

Archeologist Pasko Kuzman, head of the FYROM's Cultural Heritage Bureau, says that national museums in Belgrade and in Sofia had “turned us down politely”.
FYROM hoped to be able to display copies of four golden burial masks, a big bronze bowl and an ancient war helmet, all dating from the 5th and 6th century B.C. in its new archeological museum, set to open this year in the centre of Skopje.