On 22nd anniversary, Iraq recalls National Museum looting (Apr 10, 2003). 15k+ items lost, 8k+ still missing despite recovery efforts. A major cultural tragedy.

All the looting at Baghdad's Iraq Museum had taken place by the time U.S. troops—engaged in toppling Saddam Hussein—arrived to protect it, on April 16, 2003. Between April 8, when the museum ...

including the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. The group said there were two kinds of looting in Iraq -- simple vandalism and organized thefts that were planned in anticipation of the fall of ...

The Baghdad museum's collection was decimated by looters ... to protect its precious artefacts from violence or looting. It reopened in 2018, after Assad clawed back control of large swathes ...

and these items are now safeguarded at the National Museum of Iraq. Iraqi artifacts have been subjected to looting and vandalism since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and even further in 2014 ...