Dr. Donny George, director of research at the ministry of antiquities, shows a cuneiform tablet stolen from an excavation site at Babylon and offered for sale to a museum, and a Sumerian statue (c. 2,700 B.C.) at a 2003 Baghdad press conference. On the right, recovered antiquities, some stolen from the Babylon Museum, are displayed at a police station in Basra last December.
(Photo: AP/N. Al-Jourani, A. Zemlianichenko)
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