Culture Minister: 20,000 artifacts stolen on the way to Iraq

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Culture Minister: 20,000 artifacts stolen on the way to Iraq

10:11 - 02/13/2020

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Information / Baghdad ..
The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, revealed, Thursday, about the cooperation of about 8 countries in recovering the looted and smuggled Iraqi antiquities abroad, confirming that there are about 20 thousand artifacts in the Iraqi embassy in Washington on the way to return to Iraq .
Al-Hamdani said in a statement reported by the official newspaper Al-Sabah, which was viewed by him / the information. “Our sites were subjected to a systematic process of looting, vandalism and thefts. Archeology from different countries of the world that solidarity with Iraq in this aspect. "
Al-Hamdani added, "Our embassies return hundreds of artifacts every week to the country in cooperation with a trained and qualified team of archaeologists in the Recovery Department of the Antiquities Authority."
Al-Hamdani revealed that “the Iraqi embassy in Washington now has about 5,000 antiquities that were smuggled by the“ Hobby Lobby ”company and 10,000 stolen clay tablets at Cornell University, noting that“ half of this number of cuneiform panels is still in the embassy and we have Monuments from the city of Ur in the 1920s at the University of Pennsylvania were returned to the embassy.
Al-Hamdani praised “the cooperation of the countries of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, Ukraine and Britain that have dozens of antiques”, stressing that | the Ministry reveals daily through the Recovery Department about Iraqi pieces offered for sale in the halls and exhibitions and we interfere with the international police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to restore them. Ended / 

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This is soo funny. What else did anyone expect.  The real story will be when

someone steals the treasure from the thieves....The snakes keep on eating each

other...