Within days of the museum thefts, experts feared that artifacts had crossed Iraq’s newly opened borders and were being offered for sale Recovering missing and looted artifacts from the so-called ...

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In 2003, the world watched looters ransack Iraq's National Museum, pilfering artifacts that recorded millennia of civilization's development. U.S. soldiers were blamed by the international ...

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 ...

All the looting at Baghdad's Iraq Museum had taken place by the time ... less extensive than the early reports of 170,000 stolen artifacts, but the losses were nonetheless staggering.

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

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