Pillaging the Gardens of Babylon
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325740.ece
More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 10,000 artefacts
looted from the National Museum of Iraq are still missing.
Archaeological sites across the country have been plundered. Kim
Sengupta reports from Baghdad on the desperate struggle to protect a
priceless heritage
Published: 09 November 2005
The National Museum of Iraq is now a sorry sight. The rusting gates are
shut to the public, inside layers of dust lie across the 28 galleries
empty of everything except a dozen ancient statues which are just too
vast to move.
More than two and half years after the ransacking of the museum by a
mob following the "liberation" of Baghdad by US troops, almost 10,000
items, including some of the most precious treasures of antiquity in
the world, are still missing.
Babylon
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