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They were worshiping before. what i would like to draw your attention to is a series of plaster casts of these reliefs at persepolis. and what we've done here is project onto them the original colours. and this is how these reliefs would've looked in antiquity. all the reliefs that one knows from this period were originally coloured. so what we've done is project colour lights onto that relief to show the public exactly how these reliefs would've appeared in antiquity. just next to me here is a series of plaster casts of glazed brick panels from susa that are in the louvre.

Holding onto conversation with Bradford Cox isn’t easy. I found this out for the first time a while back, prior to Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (review) being released back in Spring (interview). Part of the problem was that rather than tie his visionary moves with the same bow as his contemporaries, he has the tendency to jump on tangents from discussing his own output to talk up the records that are inspiring him. Water from a stone to some extent, but it’s equally part of the charm of the Deerhunter lynchpin. That evening he particularly spent the time servin...

Here's an update on the top stories we're following this hour on "cnn newsroom." the terror group isis claiming responsible for attacks on a pair of mosques in yemen that left at least 137 people dead 350 injured. state-run media reports suicide bombers pretended to be disabled and hid their explosives under plaster casts they were wearing. people in tunisia meantime marched against terrorism on the country's independence day just days after two extremives killed 23 people at a museum in tunis. officials say the men had weapon training in libya. about half the people killed were tourists. ...

Large statue. that does appear to be real. what this is they are destroying appears to be an ancient preislamic statue of a hybrid between a bull and a man. a giant hybrid winged dietty. that statue is not at the mosul museum. it is thought to be in the ancient city of nineva. many other seen apoor to be models. in many cases, the reason the mosul museum would have a model of an artifact, a reproduction instead of the original is the original would have been shipped off to the iraqi national museum, which is in baghdad. some of these plaster casts that we saw isis destroying the original statu...

Pieces of a large statue that does appear to be real. what they are destroying is an ancient preislamic statute that is a hybrid of bull and a man. it is thought to be in an ancient city across the tigeress refer from mosul. many of the other things blown apart and hit with hammers appear to be models. in many cases, the reason they would have a model of an artifact, a reproduction instead of the original is because the original would have been shipped off to the iraqi national museum in baghdad. so some of the plaster casts the original object of those plaster casts, what they were made from ...