looting iraq: past and present. museum director inspects the damage april 12, 2003
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Looting Iraq:Past and Present
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Museum Director inspects the damage April 12, 2003
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Museum worker, April 12, 2003
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The British Museum
Baked clay foundation cone with cuneiform writing, end of the 3rd
millennium B.C.
Musée du Louvre
Clay proto-cuneiform tablet with early pictographic writing, end of the 4th millennium B.C.
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Various examples of cuneiform writing from Iraq Museum collection
of over 7,000 pieces
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC)
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC) ?
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Examples of the over 4,000
Cylindrical seals stolen from Iraq
National Museum
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Stone stamp seals, Jamdat Naser period, about 3000 B.C.
Iraq Museum
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Card Catalogue, Iraq National Museum
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Ambassador
L. Paul Bremer, U.S. Civil
Administrator In Iraq
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U.S Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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Copper head of Goddess of Victory (stolen)(stolen)
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Ivory plaque from Nimrud,
beginning of the 1st millennium
B.C. (IM 60555)
Iraq Museum
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Sumerian Plate inlaid with shell (stolen)(stolen)
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Stone figurines from Tell es-Sawwan, beginning of the 6th millennium B.C.
Iraq Museum
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Stone Sumerian statue, about 2400 B.C. (IM 55204)
Iraq Museum
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White marble head of Eros-Cherub, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
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Sumerian alabaster
statue from Ur, about 2400 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Stone statue from Hatra, 2nd century A.D. (IM 58084),
Iraq Museum
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An Ivory Plaque of a lion killing a Nubian, Assyrian from Nimrud, 1x10.5cm base, 9.8 high (stolen)(stolen)
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Terra cotta Sumerian figure
from Tello, about 2000 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Terra cotta relief: cult scene
from Khafaji, about 1800 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Gray Diorite Statue of Entemena, Sumerian 15x76cm, weighs 150 kg (stolen)(stolen)
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Bronze foundation figurine, end of the 3rd millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Panel carved in relief : Assyrian warriors from
Khorsabad, end of the 8th B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Gray Islamic tombstone (stolen)(stolen)
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Islamic glasses: cup (IM 11204) and bottle (IM 11223), 13th and 9-10th centuries
A.D.
Iraq Museum
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Small alabaster vessels, Tell es-Sawwan, 6th millennium B.C. -- Iraq Museum
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Gray stone head of female deity, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
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Pottery jar decorated "scarlet
ware" from Khafaji, beginning
of the 3rd millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
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Jewelry board, Royal Cemetery of Ur, about
2500 B.C.
Iraq Museum
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Stone Assyrian relief fragment from Nineveh, about 700 B.C. (stolen)(stolen)
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Islamic manuscript page
in Arabic
Iraq Museum
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Islamic carved brick architectural decoration (IM A9874) Iraq Museum/Tabbaa
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White marble head of Apollo, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
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Islamic wooden panel
Iraq Museum
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Islamic coins
Iraq Museum
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A sumerian white marble mask of female deity, life-size, 21.5cm (stolen)(stolen)
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First Floor of Iraq National
Library
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Second Floor of Iraq National Library
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Debris in back of Iraq National
Library
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Remains of bookshelves from Iraq National Library
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Looted archeological site, Ishin Bahryat, Photo by Micah Garen
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Italian Police patrol Umma, Iraq. Photo by Micah Garen
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Looters running from helicopter at Isin, Jan. 2004
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CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF
ARMED CONFLICT. Done at the Hague, on 14 May 1954
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George W. Bush, President of the United States