In Iraq’s national museum, home to some of the world’s most precious artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, a caption beside a skeleton simply reads in English: “dated to very old time.” And some of the ...

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Baghdad (AsiaNews) - The opening of the National Museum in Baghdad is another "step forward" for the stabilization of Iraq, and is a message from the government to foreign tourists: "you are welcome." ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. government has announced a $13 million grant mainly to help refurbish Iraq's National Museum which was looted in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, U.S.

Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad reopened to the public on Monday after being closed for three years following political unrest in the region that threatened the museum’s security.

Introduction / William R. Polk -- The illicit trade in looted antiquities / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Smuggling and looting in Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq ...

Back when the war was just beginning, back when we hoped to be greeted as liberators, we first heard the reports of widespread looting throughout Baghdad. Libraries, public offices, museums were all ...

Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- ...