Chapter 580: The Ransacked Museum
Fan's motorvoy circled downtown Baghdad and passed through the triumphal arch in the center of the city.
The Arc de Triomphe in the center of Baghdad was the site of Saddam's long-term military parades.
The main door of the Arc de Triomphe is the appearance of two long knives holding them, and the tips of the knives are crossed together.
At this moment, there are four US tanks parked in the Arc de Triomphe, and there are many US soldiers, guarding and patrolling near the Arc de Triomphe.
These U.S. soldiers, who were among the troops that entered Iraq yesterday, were not targeted for last night's attack, so order was good.
Fan Yize's motorcade did not stop here, and after passing the triumphal arch, it headed directly in the direction of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
In the live broadcast, Fan Yize also introduced to the people in the live broadcast room:
"The next place I'm going to go is the National Historical Museum of Iraq, which is a very old museum, 100 years old, the 11th largest museum in the world, with more than 250,000 precious historical artifacts, some dating back to the Stone Age 100,000 years ago, and all historical periods down to the middle of the 19th century.
The museum also has more than 70,000 rare books in various languages and about 6,000 unique manuscripts. In terms of popularity and volume, especially in the collection of archaeological excavations of early human civilizations, only the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo can match it in the Middle East.
The National Museum of Iraq is like a condensed thick book that faithfully records and displays the treasures of human civilization. ”
When talking about the National History Museum of Iraq, Fan Yize looks more like a scholar and a lover of history with a deep love for history.
However, when the convoy came to this history museum, which covers an area of nearly 5,000 square meters, the people in the live broadcast room who were still looking forward to it were all confused.
This museum, which should be beautiful, is now like a garbage dump.
The gate fell to the ground, covered with footprints, and the two iron doors were also hung crookedly on the doorposts.
The windows near the roadside of the museum are also all destroyed, and you can see that the windows are up and down, all of them are handprints and footprints, yellow. The colored walls were stained with all kinds of dirty plaster.
At the entrance of the museum, a tall stele fell to the ground, and an old Iraqi man who was well-dressed but already covered with dust sat on the collapsed stele and wept.
There is no figure in the vicinity, and through the door of the museum, you can see all kinds of messy shelves collapsed to the ground, those shelves that should have placed precious cultural relics or books, scattered everywhere, and a few historical statues smashed on the ground.
This is a museum, more like an abandoned old building.
"I don't know what's going on, but it's clear that it's serious.
When I passed by yesterday afternoon, the museum was fine, with its doors closed but showing no signs of damage. ”
Fan Yize, who saw this scene, said to the live broadcast room very seriously.
In the live broadcast room, the sailors who saw the museum in front of them issued a barrage of robbed museums.
There is no need to ask anything, because the scene in front of you is enough to explain what happened.
Because under the window, there were also fallen and trampled books, and the thieves did not take them away.
Fan Yize did not get out of the car, but first controlled the drone to shoot the pictures around the museum in an all-round way, and at the entrance of the other side of the museum, there was a long corridor, and a lot of looted cultural relics and received papers were also dropped on this side of the corridor.
Even at this gate, you can see a U.S. tank parked next to the museum, two Humvees, and several U.S. soldiers smoking and resting in a building next to it.
"You can see from the dust on the road where these two Humvees and the tanks are parked that this tank and these two Humvees have been here since yesterday, because last night in the evening, there was a sandstorm and there was dust on the road, and if they had arrived here in the morning, there would have been traces of them passing on the road.
And when I passed by here yesterday afternoon, the museum was still intact, at least these American soldiers must have known what was going on.
But don't want to ask them. ”
Speaking of this, Fan Yize directly opened the car door and walked down.
It is forbidden on other cars. Wei also got out of the car one after another and stood on guard at the embassy intersection.
The old man who was crying heard the sound of approaching footsteps, raised his head, and after seeing Fan Yize, he wiped away his tears, stood up and said, "Sir, is there anything wrong with you?" ”
"I came to Baghdad yesterday and wanted to see the museum's treasures, but I didn't expect to see this scene in front of me, what happened?"
Hearing Fan Yize's words, the old man wiped away the tears, and flowed down again, and said: "I am the deputy director of the museum, Muxin Hassan, last night, I and the staff of the museum, ready to transfer some cultural relics to further protect them, I just took people to transfer some cultural relics, but who would have thought that a large group of people broke the doors and windows and rushed in, snatched a large number of collections, the curator and many employees were injured and hospitalized, when I came back here, the exhibition hall has become what it is now." ”
"What about the U.S. troops in the exhibition hall?" Fan Yize asked.
"They've been here since yesterday afternoon, and they've always been on the side of the museum." Musin Hassan said.
"Didn't they stop the looters?" Fan Yize continued to ask.
"They are the army of the United States of America, not the army of Iraq." Musin Hassan replied, and this sentence spoke the most practical and simple truth.
also silenced hundreds of millions of people in Fan Yize's live broadcast room.
Seeing Fan Yize's angry face, Musin Hasan sighed, and continued with a heavy face: "I also learned in the morning that not only our museum, but also several other museums in Baghdad have also been looted, and countless cultural relics and precious manuscripts have been looted. ”