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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Virtual Reality Revives Iraq's War-ravaged Heritage

Using thousands of photographs, engineers have given a virtual rebirth to five historic sites in Mosul and the broader Nineveh province. AFP

An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by militants and in battles to defeat them.

ISIS extremists captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalizing or destroying a swathe of cultural sites across the country.

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