Jan 11 2013

U.S. holds 80,000 Iraqi antiquities

By Khayoun Saleh Azzaman, January 11, 2012 The U.S. still keeps 80,000 Iraqi artifacts and refuses to turn them back to the Iraq Museum, a senior Antiquities Department official has said. The official, Hazem al-Shammari, said Iraqi authorities were in touch with their U.S. counterparts but the discussion have so far led to nothing. Shammari [...]