The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum
On April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. Despite the presence of an American tank unit, the pillaging went unchecked, and more than 15,000 artifacts-some of the oldest evidence of human culture-disappeared into the shadowy worldwide market in illicit antiquities. In the five years since that day, the losses have only mounted, with gangs digging up roughly half a million artifacts that had previously been unexcavated; the loss to our shared human heritage is incalculable. Wit
1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations, map
9780226729435, 9781282239975, 0226729435, 128223997X
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Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view
"Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period
Getting to the postwar planning table
The meetings
A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq
The world responds
The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites
Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities
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