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	National Museum of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The National Museum of Iraq is located in Baghdad, Iraq.
		A few days later, agents of the FBI were sent to Iraq to search for stolen Museum property.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Museum_of_Iraq (1035 words)

	Baghdad Museum: All the King's Horses...All the King's Men
		One of the casualties of the Iraqi war is the National Museum of Iraq, in Baghdad.
		And so is the view of archaeologists who find the most profound loss in the charred archives from Iraq’s National Library and National Centre for Archives.
		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)

	Restoring Baghdad's Museum to Its Former Glory
		On one hand, the looting of the Baghdad museum has magnified the priceless value of many of its artifacts, it also points to the existence of organized traffic in antiquities, both on the local and international market.
		The American forces in Baghdad, together with the Iraqi police have had their own experience in returning some objects to the museum.
		During that period they visited the big museums and were invited to participate in workshops held by museographers and curators.
	www.aina.org /news/2004100716904.htm (1402 words)

	Iraq and Ruin csmonitor.com
		Sensitive to this dynamic, and to a deep conviction throughout Iraq that US troops have selectively protected oil fields and palaces at the expense of archaeological treasures, some in the museum community have begun to consider repatriating small artifacts, and replicas of larger ones, as gestures of goodwill.
		In addition, she says, since 1936 Iraq has vested ownership of all its artifacts (excavated or not) in its national government, so any object removed without permission since then is stolen property under national law - and thus also under US customs law and the National Stolen Property Act.
		Museum officials say in recent days embarrassed Iraqis have begun returning small pilfered artifacts to local mosques, to US forces, and to the museum itself.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0424/p11s02-woiq.html (1485 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		Re; looting of the National Museum of Iraq As an archeologist turned insurance underwriter I was horrified with the scenes of the looting from the museum in Baghdad.
		This is the hunt for looted antiquities from the National Museum of Iraq.
		The museum, under the control of the State Board of Antiquities, is one of the few remaining government-run operations still functioning in Iraq, let alone presided over by Baath Party members.
	www.museum-security.org /03/068.html (5984 words)

	The World Today - Looters target historic Iraqi sites
		One of the world's finest collections of antiquities housed in the National Museum of Iraq has also been raided, with scholars around the world today mourning the loss of irreplaceable jewels, artefacts, scripts and sculptures dating back to the dawn of human civilisation.
		Iraq is such an ancient culture; it's been referred to in many books as the cradle of civilisation, because in fact the material that is probably missing represents some of the earliest writing in the world.
		So, for example, these museums also contain, or control in their libraries, the records of excavations going back to the 1930's.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s831855.htm (699 words)

	Full Editorial from Current Issue
		Though far less was stolen than museum officials first led the world to believe, the looting of Iraq’s National Museum of Antiquities in the 48 hours after Saddam Hussein& downfall was a cultural atrocity.
		The museum was in the middle of one of the city’s main military objectives.
		Museum officials and American investigators are finding that the number of missing artifacts is vastly lower than first reported.
	www.artnewsonline.com /currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1368 (3262 words)

	About the looting of the National Museum of Iraq
		The National Museum held rare artifacts documenting the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, and leading archeologists were meeting in Paris on Thursday to seek ways to rescue Iraq's cultural heritage.
		By that time, he and other museum officials said, the several acres of museum grounds were overrun by thousands of men, women and children, many of them armed with rifles, pistols, axes, knives and clubs, as well as pieces of metal torn from the suspensions of wrecked cars.
		Iraq, among the earliest cradles of civilisation and home to the remains of such ancient Mesopotamian cities as Babylon, Ur and Nineveh, has one of the richest archaeological heritages in the world.
	www.irak.be /ned/nieuws/lootingOfMuseum.htm (6413 words)

	Iraqi Bloggers Central: Iraq Antiquities Revisited
		Officials at the National Museum of Iraq have blamed shoddy reporting amid the "fog of war" for creating the impression that the majority of the institution's 170,000 items were looted in the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad.
		From April 10 to 12, 2003, during the mayhem that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, looters entered the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.
		Nothing remained, museum officials said, at least nothing of real value, from a museum that had been regarded by archaeologists and other specialists as perhaps the richest of all such institutions in the Middle East.
	jarrarsupariver.blogspot.com /2005/01/iraq-antiquities-revisited.html (2239 words)

	M I N E R V A / / Exclusives
		For this reason UNESCO is organising a mission comprising eight high-level experts to formulate a preliminary assessment of the situation in the National Museum of Iraq and to specify immediate actions to be taken to enable UNESCO to ‘ensure the appropriate institutional framework and its coordination role in the safeguarding of cultural heritage in Iraq.’
		A provisional list of artefacts confirmed to have been looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad was released on 29th April during a meeting of experts on Iraqi Cultural Heritage convened at the British Museum.
		Page 2: Mesopotamia- Masterworks And Minor Works In The Iraq Museum, by Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Pages 3-11: Illustrations of over 300 works from The National Museum of Iraq, with full captions, to accompany Dr. Eisenberg's article
	minervamagazine.com /exclusives/iraq_01.php (928 words)

	Georgia Museum of Art to present security assessment of National Museum of Iraq April 28
		Georgia Museum of Art to present security assessment of National Museum of Iraq April 28
		Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly.
		The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.uga.edu /news-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=7&num=1442&printer=1 (209 words)

	M I N E R V A / / Exclusives
		The looting of the National Museum of Iraq was an incalculable tragedy, felt not only by those who were familiar with the objects that it held, but also by the entire world.
		Pietro Cordone, Senior Advisor for Culture to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, summed up the mood of exuberance on this development by stating that ‘I shared the concerns of the international museum community that the vase may not be retrieved.
		On the other hand, most of the damage may have been inflicted because the museum and its objects symbolised the State and its oppressive regime, against which the Iraqi people were venting their anger.
	minervamagazine.com /exclusives/iraq_02.php?PHPSESSID=f2ded1034ad71cc65580fd0e27046ad2 (1712 words)

	CNN.com - arts & style - Iraq reopens national museum - May 11, 2000
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At the national museum in Baghdad, Iraq has reopened the doors to its greatest treasures, giving the public the first view of Iraq's archaeological wealth since the Persian Gulf War.
		The museum had been infested with termites, and years of storage have damaged the artwork.
		Present-day Iraq is built between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, site of the ancient Mesopotamia-- considered the cradle of civilization.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/05/11/iraq.museum (504 words)

	The Art Newspaper -- Events, Politics and Economics
		Each object from the National Museum has an accession number prefixed by the initials IM (Iraq MuseumO, normally written in black ink.
		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.
		Information should be sent urgently to the British Museum's Department for the Ancient Near East.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /iraqmus (232 words)

	Baghdad
		So much of the Iraq war operates below the radar screen of the mainstream media that we rarely glimpse what is really going on - either in the daily lives of Iraqis or in the dai...
		WASHINGTON - The George W Bush administration is citing the formation of a coalition of Sunni political organizations to run candidates in Iraq's Decem...
		DUBAI, 2 November 2005 — Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani said he would oppose the use of Iraqi territory as a launch pad for any US military strike on...
	archive.wn.com /2005/11/06/1400/baghdad (419 words)

	Origins of Man
		The national Iraq museum is one of the important museums in the world which has the most important historical treasures not only for Iraqis but also for all the humanity,treasures of the Iraq Museum,will extend a genuine invitation to the museum's visitors to strike up a real friendship with its exhibits.
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The United Nations cultural agency sounded an archaeological alarm Monday, saying the ground beneath Iraq is being stripped of its treasures by armies of illegal diggers and exhorting U.S.-led occupying forces to help stop the thievery.
		The awareness of a society for its past depends on the amount of relics surviving from it,and the society which possesses many and fine museums has a corresponding stronger historical memory than the society with out of them.
	www.coastvillage.com /origins (2032 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 National Library was burned to the ground and most of its 12 million books are assumed to have been incinerated.
		Dr John Russell, an expert in looted Iraqi antiqui ties, made a room-by-room report for Unesco late in May. He noted that most of the objects that had been returned since the looting "were forgeries and reproductions".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,979734,00.html (1159 words)

	The National Museum of Iraq - Museums
		Case in point: the National Museum of Iraq, a.k.a.
		the Baghdad Museum, was plundered and virtually destroyed during the conflict in Iraq in April of 2003.
		Although it is on display in pieces, as it was smashed in the initial looting of the museum in April, at least it is back in the possession of the museum.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art11823.asp (495 words)

	5/6/03, UPM Briefings on Iraqi Looking - Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 32
		UPM received one quarter of the extraordinary Sumerian artifacts, the British Museum received one quarter, and the National Museum of Iraq received half.
		The original was kept at the National Museum of Iraq, in Baghdad.
		Dr. Zettler has excavated at several sites in Iraq and conducted research in the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v49/n32/upm.html (796 words)

	BBC NEWS Entertainment Restoring Iraq's cultural heritage
		The cultural alliance recognises that because of the enormous devastation caused to the Iraq National Museum it has been impossible for staff to discover the extent of the losses.
		Although he is angry that looters were allowed to damage Iraq's heritage he is thankful the world has recognised the impact of the loss of priceless artefacts, some of which date back thousands of years.
		Unesco is to send a team of eight experts to Iraq to make an assessment of the situation and devise a plan for the next stage in the salvage operation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2986443.stm (565 words)

	CNN.com - U.S.: We didn't anticipate looting - Apr. 15, 2003
		The ransacking of the National Museum of Iraq, in particular, speaks of a "profound breakdown" in communications between authorities in Washington and soldiers in the field or "something inexplicable." He said the museum is about one of the five greatest in the world.
		The National Museum of Iraq "had been closed during much of the 1990s, and as with many Iraqi institutions, its operations were cloaked in secrecy" under former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, The New York Times reported.
		Looters ransacked the vault of the National Museum in Baghdad.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/sprj.irq.museum.looting (835 words)

	Salon.com News The end of civilization
		Iraqi National Museum deputy director Mushin Hasan sits on destroyed artifacts after the looting of the Baghdad museum.
		On April 10, a day after the Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed and Baghdad was in the hands of the U.S. military forces, the National Museum of Iraq was ransacked.
		First on the list: the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2003/04/17/antiquities/index_np.html (310 words)

	Fertile Crescent directory - BaghdadMuseum.info
		10 :: icom.museum/iraq.html :: Page of links to resources on Iraq, Middle East and archaeology from ICOM - (International Council on Museums) - Some features include: Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk..
		the Fertile Crescent of the Ancient Near East Iraq was the heartland of early Mesopotamian...
		Syria boundary cuts across the northern arc of the crescent thus In 331 BC Alexander defeated the Persians under Darius III at Arbela (Irbid) The Iraq?
	www.baghdadmuseum.info /archaeology/fertile-crescent.php (1116 words)

	Informed Comment
		"[H]alf of the 40 iconic items from the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad still had not been retrieved.
		As the Iraqi National Museum was being looted, US troops were busy guarding the Petroleum Ministry.
		The Independent summarizes a paper given by John Curtis of the British Museum at an art crime conference in London, concerning Iraq's ancient heritage looted while Americans stood by and watched:
	www.juancole.com /2005/05/8000-antiquities-still-missing-from.html (296 words)

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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/level2.php?start1=305000&start2=350 (19 words)

	Authentic Art DC
		His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, The George Eastman House, and The Rose Art Museum.
		At the Delaware Antiques Show held at the Winterthur museum in Wilmington, Delaware last November, several small antiques were taken from more than one dealer.
		He then began his career as an advertising art director in New York, and in the 1950's he opened a photography studio in New York and produced work that has won numerous awards, including, most recently, two works in the top 10 "Best 40 Magazine Covers" awarded by The American Society of Magazine Editors.
	authenticart.blogspot.com (2822 words)

	News swissart.net - Art Switzerland
		We represent artists, galleries, museums, organizations, netart, editions, schools, journals, auctions and more.
		We provide internet services such as exhibition guide, web design, hosting, marketing and advertisement (e.g.
	www.swissart.net /e/news/index.php3?gl_cont=/e/news/archive-article.php3?myeditid=357&langindex=en (80 words)

	Baghdad Destruction
		A viewing of 35 images of works of art from the National Museum, Baghdad, Iraq in the Vassar Slide Library, compiled by Nicholas Adams and Andy Watsky with the assistance of James Monteith and Stephanie Torres.
		A listing of electronic resources including websites, online articles, media presentations, images, and documents pertaining to the destruction of the collections of the National Museum and National Library of Iraq in April, 2003
		After clicking on link, click on lower right corner of display for automatic slide show.
	artlibrary.vassar.edu /Baghdad (84 words)

	Iraq National Museum - Kassite Gold Bracelet
		Illustrations of Artifacts from Iraq: Present, Missing or Stolen
		Click on thumbnail to access full page image.
	exchanges.state.gov /culprop/iraq/00000015.htm (27 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pieces of History -- April 18, 2003
		JEFFREY BROWN: The museum housed artifacts excavated from Iraq's thousands of ancient sites, the remains of the Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians and many others who made this the "cradle of civilization." The world's first cities, first writing, first codes of law.
		JEFFREY BROWN: Another part of Iraq's rich cultural past was also damaged this week, when the national library was ransacked and burned.
		There could be no question that museum would be a target of looting, based on the fears of the antiquities department, their experience with these looters, and the very well- publicized experience after the '91 war.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/museum_04-18.html (27 words)

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