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Rachel has some good news about those artifacts in Mosul that ISIS destroyed: Many were reproduction
The originals were sent to the National Museum in Baghdad for safekeeping. Not only that, that museum, which had been set to reopen soon, is open now. 
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Sadly, however, it is true that many originals were indeed lost, including that famous statue of the winged bull with the man's head. 
