More Baghdad Museum recoveries

Some of the recently recovered looted artifacts have been put on display. Meanwhile, the Italians have been busy buying back smaller items:

. . . a collection of about 820 pieces was handed over to the Iraqi museum by the Italian-Iraq Archaeology Institute.

According to Iraq's minister of culture, Mofeed Al-Jazaeri, those pieces, which consisted mainly of cylinder seals that come from different periods, were smuggled outside Iraq, but were bought and brought to the country by members of the Italian institute.

Posted by David on November 11, 2003 4:25 PM