What happened to the museum of Baghdad?
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003 but has since reopened. A statue of Nabu, the 8th century BC Assyrian god of wisdom, stands before the building.
What happened to Saddam Hussein’s sons?
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s sons, Qusay and Uday Hussein, are killed after a three-hour firefight with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Uday and Qusay were 39 and 37 years old, respectively, when they died.
When was the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad?
National Museum, Baghdad: 10 Years Later. The looting of the museum was over less than 48 hours after it began on April 10, 2003. But it was only the start of a decade of disaster for Iraq’s cultural heritage, a heritage that includes the world’s first cities, empires, and writing system. More than ancient vases and display cases were affected.
Is the Iraq Museum open after the looting?
An optimist with an archaeologist’s long view of history, George believes that in the fullness of time, all of the antiquities will be returned. Meanwhile, many of Iraq’s 12,500 archaeological sites continue to be vulnerable to looting, and the Iraq Museum remains closed, its treasures bricked up within interior storage rooms.
How many artifacts were lost in the looting of Iraq?
The looting proved less extensive than the early reports of 170,000 stolen artifacts, but the losses were nonetheless staggering. “Every single item that was lost is a great loss for humanity,” says Donny George Youkhanna, the former director general of Iraqi museums, now a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
What did the looting of Iraq bring back?
Over the next few weeks, stolen goods began to trickle back, including a 6000 B.C. pot wrapped in a 21st-century garbage bag and the Sacred Vase of Warka (c. 3200 B.C.), in the trunk of a car. Objects were unearthed from backyards, fished out of a cesspool, recovered in pre-dawn raids. Some simply reappeared on museum shelves.