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Hatra was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia located in present-day eastern Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The ruins of the city lie 290 km northwest of Baghdad and 110 km southwest of Mosul.
The ruins of Hatra in 2019
bronze coin struck in Hatra circa 117–138 AD. Obverse depicts radiate bust of Shamash
Headless statue of a nobleman.
Military commander from the city of Hatra. Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
Since 2014, the Islamic State has destroyed cultural heritage on an unprecedented scale, primarily in Iraq and Syria, but also in Libya. These attacks and demolitions targeted a variety of ancient and
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…of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which occupied the area in mid-2014, were a major threat to Hatra. In early 2015 they announced their intention to destroy many artifacts, claiming that such "graven images" were un-Islamic, encouraged shirk (or polytheism), and could not be permitted to exist, despite the…
Cemetery in Qayyarah, Iraq, destroyed by the Islamic State (November 2016)
Prophet Jonah (Nabi Yunus) Mosque in Mosul, pictured in 1999. It was destroyed by IS in 2014.
Leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri in 2013. Destroyed by IS on 22 June 2017 during the Battle of Mosul.
Dair Mar Elia monastery, which was destroyed sometime between late August and September 2014