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MuseumsSite Name: Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad Alternative Name: Baghdad Museum, Baghdad Archaeological Museum
Country: Iraq Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Baghdad
Latitude: 33.332500N  Longitude: 44.418400E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Museum in Baghdad.
Established by the British traveler Gertrude Bell, the museum houses priceless treasures of Mesopotamia. Its collections are amongst the most important in the world. Although notable items were preserved in badly looted during the recent Iraqi war during the fall of the city in April 2003, the museum has only opened periodically since then. Efforts to retrieve stolen items have involved international governments, their police agencies and UNESCO.

Although notable items were preserved in storage off site, the museum was badly looted during the recent Iraqi war at the fall of the city in April 2003. The museum has only opened periodically since then. Efforts to retrieve stolen items have involved international governments, their police agencies, and UNESCO. Baghdad Museum Web Index. Baghdad Museum News Web Site. Google News for Iraqi National Museum.

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Authorities in Iraq Finds Missing Artifacts in Premier's Storage by bat400 on Friday, 01 October 2010
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Submitted by coldrum -- More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister's office, the antiquities minister said Monday.

The 638 items include pieces of jewelry, bronze figurines and cylindrical seals from the world's most ancient civilizations that were looted from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. After their recovery, the U.S. military delivered them last year to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office, where they were misplaced and forgotten about.

The artifacts, packed in sealed boxes, were misplaced because of poor coordination between the Iraqi government ministries in charge of recovering and handling archaeological treasures, said Tourism and Antiquities Minister Qahtan al-Jabouri.

He blamed "inappropriate handover procedures" but did not go into detail.

Authorities only realized the items misplaced at the prime minister's office were missing when they began putting together a public display of recently recovered artifacts in Baghdad on Sept. 7.



The prime minister's office investigated, located the items and handed them over to the Antiquities Ministry on Sunday, al-Jabouri said.



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Iraq displays hundreds of artifacts recovered after looting by bat400 on Sunday, 12 September 2010
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Iraqi officials displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing the image of Saddam Hussein.

The 542 pieces are among the most recent artifacts recovered from a heartbreaking frenzy of looting at Iraqi museums and archaeological sites after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and in earlier years of war and upheaval. The thefts swept a stunning array of priceless antiquities into the hands of collectors abroad.

So far, 5,000 items stolen since 2003 have been recovered, and culture officials hoped Tuesday's display would encourage more nations to co-operate in the search for 15,000 pieces still missing from the Iraqi National Museum, one of the sites worst-hit by looters after the fall of Baghdad seven years ago.

The items displayed at the Foreign Ministry Tuesday included relics of the world's most ancient civilizations. The most prominent was the statue of a Sumerian king discovered in the 1920s at the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq. The headless statue was stolen from the National Museum.

The FBI listed its theft among the world's top 10 art crimes. Experts say the statue, carved from black diorite with cuneiform inscriptions along the back and the shoulders, is the oldest known representation of an Iraqi monarch.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security located the statue in the United States in May 2006 and handed it over to Iraqi diplomats in Washington two months later.

Among the newest pieces of Iraq's recovered past was a chrome-plated AK-47 with a pearl hand grip and a small image of Saddam next to the gunsight. It was taken from Iraq to the U.S. as a war trophy by an American solider who found the rifle during a 2007 raid in Baghdad.

"Today is a celebration in Iraq. This is bringing back the civilization and the cultural heritage of Iraq," said Mohammed Muhsen Ali, deputy director of the National Museum.

Iraqi and world culture officials have for years struggled to retrieve looted treasures but with little success.

The U.S. military was heavily criticized for not protecting the National Museum's trove of relics and art after Baghdad's fall in 2003. Thieves ransacked the collection, stealing or destroying priceless artifacts that chronicled some 7,000 years of civilization in Mesopotamia, including the ancient Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians.

"We will not stop," said Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. "We will continue our efforts in order to return the last precious pieces to their legitimate owners."

The director of the National Museum, Amira Alawan, praised the international community for helping Iraq find and recover its cultural heritage. But not all countries are co-operating, Alawan said, naming Spain and Lebanon as among the nations that have refused to hand over missing Iraqi artifacts.

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Re:Iraqi police seize artifacts amid smuggling fears by coldrum on Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Iraqi police seize artifacts amid smuggling fears


Iraqi police on Tuesday seized a small cache of ancient statues and other artifacts in the south of the country that officials said were set to be smuggled abroad and sold.

Iraq, home to relics of the world's most ancient urban civilizations, has had its priceless heritage plundered and sold to collectors abroad in the chaotic years since the U.S.-led invasion.

The 39 artifacts were discovered stashed in a hole near a shrine outside the southern city of Nasiriyah, said a police official. They included statues and shards with writing on them dating back to the ancient Sumerian civilization, which is more than 4,000 years old.


In this photo released by the Iraqi Police, showing some of the artifacts seized by the police which were discovered hidden near a shrine, in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Iraqi police on Tuesday seized a small cache of ancient statues and other artifacts in the south of the country, officials said, as authorities investigate the possible smuggling of the statues and shards with writing on them dating back to the ancient Sumerian civilization, which is more than 4,000-years old.

In this photo released by the Iraqi Police, showing some of the artifacts seized by the police which were discovered hidden near a shrine, in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Iraqi police on Tuesday seized a small cache of ancient statues and other artifacts, officials said, as authorities investigate the possible smuggling of the statues and shards with writing on them dating back to the ancient Sumerian civilization, which is more than 4,000-years old.

He said a tip-off led police to believe the pieces were going to be smuggled to Iran.

Pictures of the pieces released by the Iraqi police showed images of animals, men and women carved into flat tablets, a necklace and a carving of a head and torso.

A government official who works with the archaeology department confirmed the seizure.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Iraqi law says all artifacts over 200 years have to be handed over to the Iraqi government for inspection. The country is dotted with ancient archaeological sites that have little or no protection.

The U.S. military was heavily criticized for not protecting the National Museum's treasure of relics and art following Baghdad's fall in 2003. Thieves ransacked the collection, stealing or destroying priceless artifacts that chronicled some 7,000 years of civilization in Mesopotamia, including the ancient Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians.

Iraqi and world culture officials have struggled to retrieve the treasures but met with little success. Up to 7,000 pieces were still believed missing when the museum reopened last year.

A U.S. military officer said the sale of stolen antiquities is believed to have helped finance Iraqi extremist groups.


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Ancient Iraqi stone head paired with replica body by coldrum on Friday, 02 October 2009
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Ancient Iraqi stone head paired with replica body

A mysterious stone head from ancient Mesopotamia dating back more than 4,000 years has been matched up with a replica body in Iraq after years of delays brought on by sanctions and war.

The head from the Akkadian Empire, unearthed by Iraqi archaeologists in 1982, has been united with a replica of a headless torso discovered over a century ago, Baghdad Museum curator Mohsen Hassan Ali told AFP.

The replica of the stone torso held in Berlin's Pergamon Museum was handed over at a ceremony last week and in return, the Baghdad Museum has donated a copy of the head to fit the torso in Germany.

"We have succeeded in bringing the two parts together, more or less, after a very long time," Ali said.

The two parts of the statue from the town of Ashur, thought to be of a king or governor, are some of the best preserved artefacts from the ancient empire that flourished along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers between the 23rd and 21st century BC.

German archaeologist Walter Andrae discovered the 1.37 metre tall (about four foot) diorite stone torso in 1905 and it was put on display from 1926 in the Berlin Royal Museum.

Following the later discovery at the same site of a head in the dark grey granite-like stone, a cast of the neck and shoulders was sent to Baghdad, where curators were thrilled to discover the cast fitted exactly to the head.

The statue, a robed figure standing on a plinth, is thought to represent a king or a governor but it cannot be fully identified as it bears no inscription.

Experts in both countries decided in the early 1990s to make replicas of the head and torso so they could each have a complete body.

But years of UN sanctions against the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, then the 2003 US-led war that overthrew him and chaotic violence throughout the country in the years that followed put a dampener on that plan.

Ali said he was thankful the head managed to escape widespread looting that erupted after Saddam's overthrow, when a huge number of artefacts disappeared.

"By chance the head was hidden during the looting of the museum when the Americans arrived in Baghdad. If not, maybe the two pieces -- or to be more precise the two copies -- would not have been reunited," he said.

Germany has also offered help in restoring Ezekiel's tomb in the town of Kifl south of Baghdad.

The shrine to the prophet who followed the Jews into Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC is revered by Muslims but has fallen into disrepair.

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