article_snippet: The destruction of the religious building was claimed that 'ancient' statues infamously filmed being smashed to pieces by oil rich ISIS militants in a Mosul museum were all worthless fakes.
article_snippet: The terrorist organisation  released shocking footage at the end of February purportedly showing jihadis destroying 3,000-year-old artworks with sledgehammers in 3,000-year-old artworks with sledgehammers in their northern Iraqi stronghold northern Iraqi stronghold.
article_snippet: But Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi ridiculed the propaganda exercise, claiming the genuine priceless Assyrian and Akkadian statues and sculptures are still safely in Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi possession in the Iraqi capital, adding that those in Mosul were plaster cast replicas.
article_snippet: The terrorist organisation   released shocking footage at the end of February February purportedly showing jihadis destroying 3,000-year-old artworks with sledgehammers in 3,000-year-old artworks .
article_snippet: Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi ridiculed oil rich ISIS video, claiming the genuine priceless Assyrian and Akkadian statues and sculptures are safely in Baghdad and that those in Mosul were plaster cast replicas .
article_snippet: Real: An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy a 7th century winged-bull Assyrian protective deity.
article_snippet: The statue is thought to have been one of only two genuine artifacts destroyed by oil rich ISIS in the video .