Jun 19 2012

Baghdad Museum has received 27,000 stolen artifacts in the years since the 2003-U.S. invasion

By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, June 19, 2012 Iraq’s National Museum has collected 27,000 antiquities in the years since the 2003-U.S. invasion which led to the looting of the museum’s possession and large-scale smuggling of archaeological finds. According to the Antiquities Department spokesman Ali Al-Hashemi, the pieces would fill the shelves of one special museum, however, [...]