"When I arrived here in 2019 it looked like a ghost city," Acetoso said. "In five years plus, there has been a massive change." In Mosul on Wednesday, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay hailed her team's ...

Objects marked for future restoration at the Mosul Museum in 2019. (via Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) According to an analysis by Professor Benjamin Isakhan and Professor Lynn Meskell ...

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In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural monuments. Some historic buildings are now opening after reconstruction.

said the project aimed "to work in parallel on meaningful monuments for the city and also to bring life back" to Mosul. "When I arrived here in 2019 it looked like a ghost city," Acetoso said.