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This Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, photo shows bas-relief inscriptions at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. When the Islamic State group overran the northern city of Mosul and surrounding Ninevah province in June, they captured a region were nearly 1,800 of Iraq’s 12,000 registered archaeological sites are located. They snapped up even more as they pushed south toward Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

This Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, photo shows bas-relief inscriptions at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. When the Islamic State group overran the northern city of Mosul and surrounding Ninevah province in June, they captured a region were nearly 1,800 of Iraq’s 12,000 registered archaeological sites are located. They snapped up even more as they pushed south toward Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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