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The Mosul Museum Destruction

In 2015 ISIS filmed itself destroying Assyrian and Hatrene sculptures in the Mosul Museum, while smaller, portable antiquities were trafficked to fund the group. Much was lost forever.

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France Returns Looted Syrian Antiquities

As Syria's civil war fuelled a flood of looted antiquities onto the market, France intercepted and returned a group of trafficked objects — part of a wider fight against the 'blood antiquities' financing conflict.

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The Greenhalgh 'Garden Shed' Forgeries

From a garden shed behind a Bolton council house, Shaun Greenhalgh and his elderly parents forged artworks spanning 5,000 years — most famously the 'Amarna Princess', which Bolton Museum bought for £440,000 as a 3,300-year-old Egyptian masterpiece.

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Mosul Museum

Iraq's second-largest museum, whose Assyrian antiquities were smashed on camera by ISIS in 2015.