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	National Museum of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the museum experienced extensive looting and damage during the 2003 invasion of Baghdad, with the loss of an unknown proportion of its 170,000 ancient artifacts.
		Irving Finkel of the British Museum said the looting was "entirely predictable and could easily have been stopped." Martin Sullivan, chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property, and State Department cultural advisor Gary Vikan both resigned in protest.
		On April 18, 2003, the Baghdad Museum Project was formed in the United States with a proposal to assure the National Museum of Iraq every possibility of the eventual safe return of its collection, even if that is to take hundreds of years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_National_Museum (1213 words)

	Iraq Museum Is Slowly Recovering Artifacts
		Mobs ransacked the downtown museum between April 9 and April 12 as U.S. forces entered Baghdad in the waning days of the war against the government of Saddam Hussein.
		Museum staff members, still incensed at the initial military response to the looting, were standoffish, he said.
		The greatest piece of luck, and the greatest misfortune, occurred when thieves with knowledge of the museum's catacombs broke into a basement storeroom during the looting and went straight to a line of cabinets filled with cylinder seals and the world's finest collection of Greek, Roman, Islamic and Arabic gold and silver coins.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/isept/15_museum.html (1082 words)

	Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk : H-Museum Current Focus
		Iraq is a country with a rich history.
		Present-day Iraq occupies the greater part of the ancient land of Mesopotamia, the plain between Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
		(Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
	www.h-net.org /~museum/iraq.html (675 words)

	Iraq Museum's Director-General Lectures About Antiquities
		The Iraq Museum is "the only museum in the world that has history and culture of mankind in one spot," George explained.
		The inside cover of the book explains: "Iraq is a country of firsts: the earliest villages, cities, writing, poetry, epic literature, temples, codified religion, armies, warfare, world economy, and empire." Hence, Iraq is the Cradle of Civilization.
		Iraq's Ministry of Culture seeks cooperation from Turkey and Iran in the location of smuggled antiquities and they await feedback from these countries.
	www.aina.org /news/200506910119.htm (1554 words)

	CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS IN THE LOOTED IRAQ MUSEUM
		The Iraq Museum was spared any looting in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, though most of the regional museums were thoroughly looted.
		Discovered by accident in northern Iraq in 1975 during road construction, this bronze statue base (only the legs and part of the torso of the human figure are preserved) is definitely among the looted objects.
		Contrary to most museums where the majority of the seal collections were purchased on the antiquities market, nearly the entire collection in the Iraq Museum was from controlled excavations, thus assuredly authentic (the only other major collection largely from authorized excavations is in the Oriental Institute, Chicago).
	www.ifar.org /cuneiform.htm (1256 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		Anderson "called on museums and collectors around the world not to acquire antiquities stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and urged that information leading to the recovery of artifacts be passed on to appropriate authorities," the AAMD said in a statement.
		Museum officials have determined that most of the looting that did take place at the museum, home to more than 170,000 artifacts of human civilization, was focused on office machines and furniture, as at other government buildings, and that only selected antiquities were taken.
		Museum workers shook their heads, and complained that during the looting they had begged the military to protect the museum.
	www.museum-security.org /03/051.html (17260 words)

	The Story of the Iraq Museum
		About 15,000 objects were stolen, not 170,000 as first reported (actually the size of the museum's entire collection), an exaggeration resulting from misunderstandings between the first journalists to reach the shattered museum and distraught Iraqi curators.
		The museum's story of early promise erased by war and Saddam's megalomania becomes here a kind of metaphor for the recent history of Iraq.
		In the 1980s archaeologists found a library of 800 tablets arranged on their shelves at a site called Sippar and sent them to the Iraq Museum, where they were widely and mistakenly reported to have been lost in the 2003 looting.
	www.aina.org /news/20050913165657.htm (970 words)

	Baghdad Museum: All the King's Horses...All the King's Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the casualties of the Iraqi war is the National Museum of Iraq, in Baghdad.
		The larger items, their museum ID numbers stripped, will be too hot to sell now (artifacts stolen during the 1991 Gulf War have still not resurfaced) and will either be abandoned or go on a fl market for stolen treasures and then to hidden private collections.
		At the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, for example, an ornamental crystal ball from the imperial palace in Beijing, priceless and beloved, disappeared from under the noses of the guards.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/MAY2003/Lead_Story.htm (1374 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'New spirit' lifts Baghdad's Iraq Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		BAGHDAD — One year after looters stole some of its most prized antiquities, the Iraq Museum in Baghdad is undergoing a top-to-bottom restoration that its leaders hope will make it one of the premier museums and research centers in the world.
		The museum also was damaged during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war and the 1991 Gulf War.
		Museums in Europe and the USA have sent experts to Baghdad to aid in archival work and to develop ways to replenish the archives and collections.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-05-04-baghdad-museum_x.htm (1061 words)

	The British Museum: Iraq Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The National Museum in Baghdad had been looted and the safety of the country's numerous archaeological sites was unknown, events that an international community of museum curators and university lecturers had sincerely hoped would not come to pass.
		The British Museum has been and still is at the forefront in informing the public about the current situation and reminding its visitors of the importance of Iraq’s archaeological and historical legacy.
		A spectacular object from Iraq in the Museum’s collections, known as the Queen of the Night, will be going on tour to other museums within the coming months.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /iraqcrisis (837 words)

	Museum Madness in Baghdad - Middle East Quarterly - Spring 2004
		The looting of the Iraq Museum (Baghdad) is the most severe single blow to cultural heritage in modern history, comparable to the sack of Constantinople, the burning of the library at Alexandria, the Vandal and Mogul invasions, and the ravages of the conquistadors.
		Iraq poses no direct military threat to the U.S. and the likelihood that it would attack its neighbors is far greater in the event of a U.S. attack.
		On April 9, there was the first report of looting of a museum in Basra, and by the morning of April 10, the media filled with reports of the looting of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.
	www.meforum.org /article/609 (5727 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraq's museums: what really happened
		Early in April, Dr John Curtis, head of the Ancient Near East department at the British Museum, described a recent visit to Baghdad during which the museum staff were sandbagging objects too big to be moved, packing away smaller exhibits, and debating "the possibility of using bank vaults and bunkers if the worst came".
		The museum was secured on April 16, but it took until April 21 for Civil Affairs to arrive.
		The British School of Archaeology in Iraq and the British Museum now have staff working in the Iraq Museum, while other organisations worldwide are fundraising.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,979734,00.html (1172 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Iraq museum unveils treasures
		It is the first time any part of the museum has been open since it was looted in the aftermath of the war.
		In April, there was an international outcry when it was feared that most of the contents of Iraq's National Museum had been looted in the chaos of the war.
		The lead investigator and some museum staff say some of the theft was the work of regular looters but that some of it was clearly an inside job.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3040386.stm (431 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| US army was told to protect looted museum
		Iraq's national museum is identified as a 'prime target for looters' and should be the second top priority for securing by coalition troops after the national bank, says a memo sent last month by the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), set up to supervise the reconstruction of postwar Iraq.
		Looting of the museum could mean 'irreparable loss of cultural treasures of enormous importance to all humanity', the document concluded.
		The US military argues that its primary job in the first few days was to quell armed resistance in Baghdad, and that it could not tackle looters until it had finished fighting a war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,940082,00.html (682 words)

	SAFE Offers Iraq Museum Benefit Tour
		Museum Tour to benefit the rebuilding of the Iraq Museum offered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on June 4, 2005.
		Saving Antiquities for Everyone is proud to announce the start of a new series of SAFE Tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to benefit the rebuilding of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
		The Iraq Museum Benefit tours are presented in conjunction with the publication of "The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: the lost legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia", edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M H Schuster (Harry N. Abrams).
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/6/prweb247628.php (459 words)

	Information on Iraqi Museums Collections
		The Akkadian Seals in Iraq Museum : by Subhi Anwar Rashid, Hayat Abid Ali Al-Huri / Hayat Abid Ali Al-Huri, Subhi Anwar Rashid, Iraq Museum.
		Report on the excavations at Yorgan Tepa Near Kirkuk, Iraq conducted by Harvard University in conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University Museum of Philadelphia, 1927-1931 : by Richard F. Starr / Richard F. Starr.
		Museum of Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities in the Pergamon Museum
	icom.museum /iraq.html (902 words)

	Iraq Museum looting \| MetaFilter
		I mean, if, as the article states, the thieves had prior knowledge of the layout of the museum and stole some of the most valuable pieces, it still sucks.
		The National Museum, which remains in a state of disorder and disorganization, has in turn been slow to draw up a detailed list of looted treasures, partly because it lacks a computerized inventory.
		Not only had the museum failed to provide him with its inventory, it had not let him into the vaults where some of the most valuable antiquities were kept.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/25592 (2567 words)

	SAFE holds Iraq Museum Benefit Tours
		The non-profit group Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) has begun a new series of SAFE Tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to benefit the rebuilding of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
		Guided by art historians, archaeologists and museum specialists, the Iraq Museum Benefit Tours intend to provide an insider's look at museum collections to the public at the Ancient Near Eastern galleries.
		All of the proceeds will be donated to Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage for the rebuilding of the Iraq Museum.
	portaliraq.com /news/SAFE+holds+Iraq+Museum+Benefit+Tours__1111234.html (398 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Hunt on for Iraq museum thieves
		Iraq's National Museum, which held thousands of artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia, one of the world's earliest civilisations, was looted along with other institutions as US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in April.
		Museum inventories, which may have been incomplete to start with, were destroyed or lost during the looting.
		They are said to include priceless manuscripts, a 7,000-year-old vase and one of the oldest bronze bas-relief representations of a bull.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3003995.stm (515 words)

	The Iraq War & Archaeology
		Iraq - All files: visual database of some of the artifacts stolen in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.
		Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative: collaborative project to mitigate threats to and repair damage sustained by Iraq's cultural heritage and to rebuild the country's professional conservation and heritage-management capacity, by the Getty Conservation Institute (
		Iraq Museum Restoration: numismatic publications are being collected to donate to the National Museum in Baghdad, by the American Numismatic Society (ANS)
	iwa.univie.ac.at (10307 words)

	The Art Newspaper -- Events, Politics and Economics
		The 300 illustrations here are from the only detailed catalogue of the museum, Treasures of the Iraq Museum by Dr Faraj Basmachi, published in Baghdad in 1975/6.
		If any items are spotted on art market (they may have been damaged during the looting or deliberately altered in an attempt to disguise their origin), then it is vital that this be reported.
		The British Museum has agreed to act as a conduit of information, in the absence of telecommunications links with Baghdad and until UNESCO has decided on more formal channels.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /iraqmus (232 words)

	WWW-VL: History Index: Iraq History; Gulf War, Ba'ath Party Fall, US Occupation, Allawi, Artifacts, Election, Ba'th
		Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of the ancient Babylonians, by A. Sayce (Oxford, Williams and Norgate, 1898), from ETANA
		The Conquest of Iraq and Süleyman I, from Gilgamesh
		Iraq's parliament approves cabinet of ministers, IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency
	vlib.iue.it /history/asia/Iraq/index.html (1505 words)

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		the museum staff, the losses were less severe than than initially reported in the media, when a total loss of this collection was predicted.
		Since April 2003 scholars at the Oriental Institute have been compiling a comprehensive database of objects from the Iraq Museum.
		The objects shown here are known to have been in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad or in one of Iraq's provincial museums before the war.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/Iraqdatabasehome.htm (769 words)

	Iraq Museum International Poster Exhibition : The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Iraq Museum International Poster Exhibition : The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Middle East
		Poster Exhibition: The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Middle East
		Iraq Museum International and the Baghdad Museum Project are supported by volunteer and visitor contributions.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org (284 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK: cultural property protection against malicious intent
		This page is meant to offer information about cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire, forgery etc..
		The British Museum is leading calls to stop sites of archaeological interest being destroyed during the conflict in Iraq
		The USA did not ratify the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague 1954....
	www.museum-security.org /artcrime.html (4912 words)

	Iraq Museum International
		Thieves stole thousands of such objects from the Iraq Museum and continue to strip mine Iraq's archaeological sites for more.
		However, there is no warning on eBay about new global efforts to hunt down fl market dealers and collectors in order to recover these artifacts.
		Before bidding, prospective buyers of Mesopotamian artifacts listed on eBay are urged to carefully read and compare the sellers' statements and determine that an artifact is both authentic and legitimate.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /index0504.php (395 words)

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