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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Iraq recovers ancient artifacts from Japan and Switzerland
Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...
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Iraq recovers thousands of smuggled artifacts for national museum
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Iraq Returns 27,000 Antiquities to National Museum
These items have been returned to their original homeland at the National Museum of Iraq," Obeid added. The head of the antiquities and heritage authority also emphasized that efforts extend beyond ...
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Iraq reopens National Museum after thousands of smuggled artifacts return
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Iraq’s National Museum Reopens After a Three-Year Closure (AFP)
The Iraq Museum was closed three years ago "because ... The authorities have recovered around a third of some 15,000 artifacts that were looted at the time. Islamic State group jihadists, who ...
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Despite protests, State Department says it will return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq
Under Saddam Hussein’s reign, Iraq had looted many of the artifacts after the dictator ... The archive is set to be exhibited at the Jewish Museum of Maryland Oct. 15-Jan. 15.