Stolen Jewelry Irak
Artefacts recovered
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Iraq’s National Museum, which held thousands of artefacts from
ancient Mesopotamia, one of the world’s earliest civilizations,
was looted along with other institutions as US-led forces toppled
Saddam Hussein’s regime in April, 2003.
The looting has been described as “the crime of the century” and the US military has been accused of not doing enough to stop it. One of Iraq’s most valuable artefacts -- a priceless statue -- was repatriated to the Iraqi government last week three years after it was stolen from the national museum and hailed as a symbol of the country's ancient past and future potential. |
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The statue was housed in the Iraqi National Museum until it and
thousands of other artefacts were looted following the 2003 invasion.
US customs officials recovered the statue in Syria earlier this year
and it was then taken to New York to be authenticated.
The artefacts include gold coins with Arabic inscriptions, dating
back to the country's Islamic period. They'll now take their place
along with the Museum's other treasures from ancient Mesopotamia,
one of the world's earliest civilisations.
( By David Pollard)
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