Iraqi officials are calling for international help to reclaim archaeological sites and other heritage destroyed by Islamic State extremists. A two-day gathering at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris beginning Thursday brought experts in archeology, scholars and diplomats together with officials from Iraq. The meeting's goal is a plan to preserve and rebuild the cultural heritage damaged and destroyed by the Islamic State group.Let us hope that this leads to an improvement on their previous poor stewardship of their non-Islamic heritage.
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