The EI destroyed a collection of Iraqi antiquities in Mosul

The Islamic State Group (EI) has issued a five-minute video showing the killing of dozens of statues and sculptures dating from antiquity. These images, which have yet to be authenticated, would have been filmed in the museum in Mosul, the city in northern Iraq, in June fell into the hands of jihadists. The bulk of the collection seems to have been destroyed with blows of the masses, and even jackhammers. The museum housed including art objects of the Assyrian period, dating back to several centuries before Christ, and considered heresies, symbols of idolatry by the militants of the Islamic state. Some of these antiquities have however been spared to be sold on the black market.

An Iraqi archaeologist compared the destruction blasting in 2001, Bamiyan Buddhas giants in Afghanistan. Carved into the mountain, there are more than 1,500 years, Buddhas had been reduced to dust by the Taliban.