Phew! Remember Those Statues ISIS Smashed? They ‘Were Fakes’

A few weeks ago, ISIS made everyone mad when it posted videos online of its militants smashing ancient Assyrian statues in a museum in northern Iraq.

In this March 1, 2015. file photo, a man at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad walks past two ancient Assyrian human-headed winged bull statues. Islamic State militants "bulldozed" the renowned archaeological site of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq on Thursday, March 5, 2015, using heavy military vehicles, the government said. Nimrud was the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that began in about 900 B.C., partially in present-day Iraq, and became a great regional power. The city, which was destroyed in 612 B.C., is located on the Tigris River just south of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, which was captured by the Islamic State group in JuneAP Photo/Karim Kadim, File

A few weeks ago, ISIS caused outrage when it posted videos online of militants smashing ancient Assyrian statues in a museum in northern Iraq.

But it appears that ISIS, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, didn’t smash the real ones.

“They were copies. The originals are all here,” Baghdad’s museum director was quoted by Al-Arabiya TV as saying.

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