article_snippet: The extent of the damage wasn't immediately clear, according to Iraqi state broadcaster Iraqiya TV.
article_snippet: Photos: Precious monuments lost in conflicts .
article_snippet: 612 B.C. The archaeological site is south of Mosul in northern Iraq.
article_snippet: the Mosul Museum held 173 original pieces of antiquity and was being readied for reopening when B.C.
  ISIS invaded Mosul in June, according to Qais Hussain Rashid, the antiquities ministry's director general of Iraqi museums, who spoke to Iraqiya TV last week.
article_snippet: Depicted in the reliefs are marauding troops in foreign lands, rendered in a style marked by lively action and attention paid to topographic and ethnographic detail," the fund's website says.