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Its collection was comprised of 8,000 objects– including Palaeolithic tools, early pottery, painted ceramics, cuneiform tablets, and the renowned medieval, blue-glazed Raqqa ware–spanning a civilisational arc from as early as 40,000 BC to the Middle Ages. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Between 2013 and 2017, Islamic State (IS) seized control of Raqqa and systematically looted the museum and its storehouses. While many artefacts were destroyed, others were trafficked onto the global illegal antiquities market. Today, only 880 objects remain from the original collection. Following determined local efforts to rebuild the museum and recover surviving works, around forty artefacts are currently on public display in Raqqa.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">For \u003Ci>Stolen Past, \u003C/i>artist Hrair Sarkissian adapted a mid-19th-century technique to 3D-print 90 of the missing objects as lithophanes, 48 of which are presented here. 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