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The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul is in ruins, with exhibition halls housing piles of rubble and the basement filled with ankle-deep drifts of ash.

An information office of The Islamic State, ISIS, in Libya has published photos of its militants burning musical instruments they said were confiscated in line with the radical group’s interpretation of Sharia law.

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The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) has seen untold damage done to the Middle East’s cultural heritage sites.