Monday, May 05, 2003

statesman.com | Most antiquities feared lost in looting found intact in museum

statesman.com | Most antiquities feared lost in looting found intact in museum
The vast majority of the Iraqi trove of antiquities feared stolen or broken have been found inside the National Museum in Baghdad, according to American investigators who compiled an inventory over the weekend of the ransacked galleries.
A total of 38 pieces, not tens of thousands, are now believed to be missing. Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.

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