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this plundering, sending a worldwide message about the lost, stolen, or probably “status unknown” artifacts. In addition, the website created a mass mailing list (“IraqiCrisis”) about the lost items from the Iraq Museum. However, the pertinent webpage about the looted Mesopotamian artifacts from the Iraq Museum was last updated on April 10, 2008, and then archived. The website seems to not update its information after then. Gradually, many artifacts which were labeled by the Lost Treasure from Iraq website as stolen or status unknown were found to be on display at museums inside Iraq for several years before the US-led invasion of Iraq. In addition, many others were still safe at the Iraq Museum and were not pillaged. This reflects prominent miscommunication and/or disconnection between the pertinent bodies responsible for the storage, registration, and display of these artifacts. As of December 16, 2022, the databases of the Iraq Museum on the Lost Treasures from Iraq appear not to be updated after April 14, 2008, to correct this.
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protective foam support and mitigation barriers for large size artefacts, the uniforms and ammunition turning out to belong to the museum curators and staff (being reserve military personnel in state of war) and to the contrary to the U.S. statement, no traces of any serious engagement were detected anywhere in the museum and its surrounding yard. Iraqi staff as a protective measure had built a fortified wall along the western side of the compound, allowing concealed movement between the front and rear of the museum, and the U.S. forces could have secured the museum by simply encircling and isolating it preventing the looters from accessing the facility.
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market, the group set its mission as being to (1) establish a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts in the museum's collection, (2) create a virtual Baghdad Museum that is accessible to the general public over the Internet, (3) build a 3D collaborative workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum for design and fundraising purposes, and (4) establish a resource center within the virtual Baghdad Museum for community cultural development. Various ancient items believed looted from the museum have surfaced in neighboring countries on their way to the
901: 501: 392:. The Entemena statue, "estimated to be 4,400 years old, is the first significant artifact returned all the way from the United States and by far the most important piece found outside Iraq. American officials declined to discuss how they recovered the statue." The statue of the king, located in the center of the museum's second-floor Sumerian Hall, weighs hundreds of pounds, making it the heaviest piece stolen from the museum – the looters "probably rolled or slid it down marble stairs to remove it, smashing the steps and damaging other artifacts." 765:, as a signal that things were returning to normal. In December 2008, the museum was opened for a photo opportunity for Ahmad Chalabi, who returned a number of artifacts supposedly handed in to him by Iraqis. On February 23, 2009, the museum was opened at the behest of Iraqi prime minister Maliki, to demonstrate that things were returning to normal. Many archaeological officials protested against this opening, arguing that conditions were not yet safe enough to put the museum at risk; the museum's director was fired for airing her objections. 1036: 1017: 373: 842: 856: 6711: 2751: 256: 6983: 6702: 6720: 1055: 6729: 227: 630: 830:. The museum purchased the artifact in 2006; its provenance records claimed it had previously been bought to the United States in 1969. After FBI agents determined that the records were falsified, the museum handed the artifact over to the FBI in December 2022. The FBI states that this is the first time an artifact looted from the Iraq Museum has been found in the possession of an American museum. 686: 610: 650: 197:(a British traveller, intelligence agent, archaeologist, and author) began collecting the artifacts in a government building in Baghdad in 1922. In 1926, the Iraqi government moved the collection to a new building and established the Baghdad Antiquities Museum, with Bell as its director. Bell died later that year; the new director was 737:. On November 24, 2009, Google announced that it would create a virtual copy of the museum's collections at its own expense, and make images of four millennia of archaeological treasures available online, free, by early 2010. It is unclear the extent by which Google's effort overlaps with Italy's previous initiative. Google's 559:
belonging to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad were recovered by U.S. Customs agents working with museum experts in Iraq. Some looters had returned items after promises of rewards and amnesty, and many items previously reported missing had actually been hidden in secret storage vaults prior to the outbreak
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In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Qahtan Abbas, Iraq's tourism and antiquities minister, said that only 6,000 of the 15,000 items looted from the museum in 2003 had been returned. And an estimated 600,000 archaeological pieces were looted by groups and militias allied with the United States since
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The third occurrence of theft was in the underground storage rooms. The thieves attempted to steal the most easily transportable objects, which had been intentionally stored in the most remote location possible. Of the four rooms, the only portion disturbed was a single corner in the furthest room,
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On January 30, 2012, a 6,500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace were among 45 relics returned to Iraq by Germany. Up to 10,000 of the Iraq Museum pieces are still missing, said Amira Eidan, general director of the museum at the time of
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In addition, the museum's above-ground storage rooms were looted. Approximately 3,100 excavation site pieces (jars, vessels, pottery shards, etc.) were stolen, of which only 3,000 have been recovered. The thefts did not appear to be discriminating; for example, an entire shelf of fakes was stolen,
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Thefts took place between April 10 and 12, and when a number of museum staff returned to the building on April 12, they fended off further attempts by looters to enter the museum and had to wait until April 16 for the deployment of the U.S. forces around the museum. A special team headed by Marine
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took the very first and most outstanding initiative to inform the rest of the world about the ransacking of the Iraqi Museum's collection during the US-led invasion of Iraq. The institute set up a new webpage (named Lost Treasures from Iraq) on its website on April 15, 2003, just a few days after
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On April 18, 2003, the Baghdad Museum Project was formed in the United States with a proposal to assure the Iraq Museum every possibility of the eventual safe return of its collection, even if that is to take hundreds of years. Rather than focus only on law enforcement and the current antiquities
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said, "The United States understands its obligations and will be taking a leading role with respect to antiquities in general but this museum in particular," but all such promises were only partially honoured considering the staggering increase in Iraqi archaeological site looting during the U.S.
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The museum has been protected since its looting, but archaeological sites in Iraq were left almost entirely unprotected by coalition forces, and there has been massive looting, starting from the early days of the warfare and between summer 2003 and the end of 2007. Estimates are that 400–600,000
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declared that he "was unable to enter the compound and secure it since they attempted to avoid returning fire at the building. Sniper positions, discarded ammunition, and 15 Iraqi Army uniforms were later discovered in the building". The positions turned out to be museum arranged sandbags and
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The museum opened its doors only sporadically between September 1980, during the Iran-Iraq War, and 2015. After the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the museum was rarely opened, including an opening on July 3, 2003, for several hours for a visit by journalists and Coalition Provisional
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2003, according to a book published in 2009. In September 2011 Iraqi officials announced the renovated museum will permanently reopen in November, protected by new climate control and security systems. The United States and Italian governments have both contributed to the renovation effort.
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Due to the archaeological riches of Mesopotamia, the museum's collections are considered to be among the most important in the world, and it has a fine record of scholarship and display. The British connection with the museum — and with Iraq — has resulted in exhibits always being displayed
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The extent of the looting of The Iraq Museum has been disputed. Based on a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene, and the empty display cases in the main galleries that in most cases had held objects which museum curators had removed before the First Gulf War and invasion, news
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The collections of The Iraq Museum include art and artifacts from ancient Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations. The museum also has galleries devoted to collections of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabian art and artifacts. Of its many noteworthy collections, the Nimrud gold
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spearheaded efforts by the Iraqi artist community to recover artworks looted from the museum. Approximately 150 of Hikmat's pieces were stolen from the museum alone. Hikmat's group has only recovered approximately 100 of the museum's works, as of September 2011.
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At various Iraq reconstruction conferences, the Baghdad Museum Project gave presentations to the reconstruction community advocating the preservation of Iraq's cultural heritage in rebuilding projects. On August 27, 2006, Iraq's museum director Dr.
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collection—which features gold jewelry and figures of the precious stone that date to the 9th-century BCE—and the collection of stone carvings and cuneiform tablets from Uruk are exceptional. The Uruk treasures date to between 3500 and 3000 BCE.
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initiated an investigation on April 21. His investigation indicated that there were three separate thefts by three distinct groups over the four days. While the staff instituted a storage plan to prevent theft and damage (also used during the
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was torn apart by looters who removed its gold inlay." Among the stolen artefacts is the bronze Bassetki Statue, a life-size statue of a young man, originally found in the village Basitke in the northern part of Iraq, an
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and the UK government to ensure the museum's safety from both combat and looting, but no promises were made. U.S. forces did not bomb the site, despite them bombing a number of uninhabited Iraqi archaeological sites.
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organizations for weeks reported that as much as 170,000 catalogued lots (501,000 pieces) had been looted. The accurate figure was around 15,000 items, including 5,000 extremely valuable cylinder seals.
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On April 14, National Public Radio's Robert Siegel announced on All Things Considered: "As it turned out, American troops were but a few hundred yards away as the country's heritage was stripped bare."
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led the search for these stolen artifacts for over five years from 2003. Up to the year 2006 approximately 10,000 artifacts were recovered through his efforts. Antiquities recovered include the
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In 2017, forty ancient Iraqi artefacts drawn from the Iraq Museum and spanning six millennia, from the Neolithic Age to the Parthian Period, were shown alongside contemporary artworks at the
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organized an emergency meeting of antiquities experts on April 17, 2003, in Paris to deal with the aftermath of the looting and its effects on the global art and antiquities market.
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In 1966, the collection was moved again, to a two-story, 45,000-square-meter (480,000-square-foot) building in Baghdad's Al-Ṣāliḥiyyah neighborhood in the
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On April 9, 2003, the last of the museum curators and staff left the museum. Iraqi forces engaged U.S. forces a few blocks away, as well as the nearby
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collections and rare Islamic texts, sat empty Saturday – except for shattered glass display cases and cracked pottery bowls that littered the floor."
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Talbot, Ann. US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures. 19 April 2003. World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 10 July 2020
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Bogdanos, Matthew. The Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum American Journal of Archaeology, 109, 3 (July 2005)
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The U.S. government was criticised for doing nothing to protect the museum after occupying Baghdad. Dr Irving Finkel of the
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cultural advisers Gary Vikan and Richard S. Lanier resigned in protest at the failure of US forces to prevent the looting.
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On August 3, 2021, multiple global news sites reported that the US has returned 17,000 looted ancient artifacts to Iraq.
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became the director of the Iraq Museum in 1983. She was the first woman director and she held that role until 1989.
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service was used to image much of the museum's exhibit areas and, as of November 2011, these images are online.
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When asked why the U.S. military did not try to guard the museum in the days after the invasion succeeded, Gen.
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638 stolen artifacts were returned to the Iraq Museum after they were located in the office of Prime Minister
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On June 9, 2009, the treasures of the Iraq Museum went online for the first time as Italy inaugurated the
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On April 12, 2003, The Associated Press reported: "The famed Iraq National Museum, home of extraordinary
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piece that goes back to 2300 B.C. and the stone statue of King Schalmanezer, from the eighth century BC.
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On September 7, 2010, the Associated Press reported that 540 looted treasures were returned to Iraq.
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All attacks listed in this group were either committed by insurgents, or have unknown perpetrators
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of war. On June 7, 2003, the U.S. occupation authorities announced that world-famous treasures of
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began several excavations throughout Iraq. In an effort to keep those findings from leaving Iraq,
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According to museum officials, the looters concentrated on the heart of the exhibition: "the
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One of the most valuable artifacts looted was a headless stone statue of the Sumerian king
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Renowned Iraqi Scholar, Dr Donny George Youkhana, Appointed to Faculty at Stony Brook
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Missing Antiquities: Loss Estimates Are Cut on Iraqi Artifacts, but Questions Remain
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The Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003 but has since reopened. A statue of
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furniture piece dating back 7,500 years ago. It was previously on display at the
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On February 28, 2015, the museum was officially reopened by Iraqi Prime Minister
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said the looting was "entirely predictable and could easily have been stopped."
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had been left in the public galleries, protected with foam and surrounded by
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Bogdanos, Matthew. Thieves of Baghdad - and of the World's Cultural Property
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Iraq's national museum to showcase its treasures online with aid of Google
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Antiquities: Curators Appeal for a Ban on Purchase of Iraqi Artifacts
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Google Chief Announces Plan in Baghdad to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online
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Newsweek. The Last Word: Donny George. A Real-Life Treasure Hunt.
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Looters Pillage Babylon Leaving Iraqis, Archeologists Devastated
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while an adjacent shelf of much greater value was undisturbed.
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The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
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The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
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On May 7, 2003, U.S. officials announced that nearly 40,000
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Donald Rumsfeld book admits 'misstatements' over WMD sites
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were sent to Iraq to search for stolen Museum property.
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The Iraq War: A Historiography of Knowledge Changelogs
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Relics: Experts' Pleas to Pentagon Didn't Save Museum
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Archaic the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale
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Dan Cruickshank Under Fire (Raiders Of The Lost Art)
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It is sometimes informally called the 6771: 6362: 4368: 3871:Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order 2670:National Museum of Modern Art (Baghdad) 2508:Donny George: A Real-Life Treasure Hunt 2258: 1943:, The New York Times, November 24, 2009 1537:from the original on September 25, 2011 1522: 1511: 1320: 1318: 1290: 979:The Assyrian gallery at the Iraq Museum 480:Two weeks after the museum thefts, Dr. 453:Reacting to the loss, French President 14: 7545: 6676:U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East 6470:Iraqi security forces fatality reports 6417:Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial 6412:Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial (London) 6064:Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan 5994: 3701:Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance 2406: 1978: 1623: 1555: 6745: 6558: 6215: 5758: 4790: 4753:Turkish incursions into northern Iraq 3900: 3578: 3248: 2818: 2769: 2599: 2303: 2220:from the original on October 29, 2018 1393:from the original on October 17, 2015 772: 411:International reaction to the looting 7568:Museums of Ancient Near East in Asia 6728: 4006:Capture of Saddam Hussein (Red Dawn) 3126:UK parliament's support for invasion 2560:The 2003– Iraq War & Archaeology 2013:Iraq reopens looted national museum 1630:Hobson, Katherine (3 October 2004). 1315: 1181: 1179: 1145: 1143: 1120: 1118: 949:The lady at the window, part of the 277:American Council for Cultural Policy 6590:"Enhanced interrogation techniques" 2413:Bogdanos, Matthew (June 17, 2009). 1860:"Lost Treasures from Iraq--Objects" 1835:"Lost Treasures from Iraq--Objects" 1810:"Lost Treasures from Iraq--Objects" 1785:"Lost Treasures from Iraq--Objects" 1760:"Lost Treasures from Iraq--Objects" 1446:US experts resign over Iraq looting 890:Sumerian Statues from Eshnunna and 130: 24: 5925:Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy 2452:Thousands of Iraqi artifacts found 2259:Baghdad, Reuters in (2021-08-03). 2249:Reuters Retrieved February 6, 2012 2032:Rothfield, Lawrence (April 2009). 1412:Robbing the Cradle of Civilization 1357:from the original on April 3, 2015 1150:Poole, Robert M. (February 2008). 719:in the anthropology department of 580:United States Marine Colonel, and 230:Exhibit during renovations in 2007 25: 7604: 6585:Efforts to impeach George W. Bush 6450:Aviation shootdowns and accidents 6216: 5965:Senate Report on WMD Intelligence 5700:Prosecution for the 2003 invasion 4846:Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre 3045:Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy theory 2518: 2337:Al-Heeti, Abrar (4 August 2021). 2115:from the original on 1 March 2015 1924:, The Guardian, November 24, 2009 1660:. www.marines.com. 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July 26, 2006 1323: 1316: 1311:Wayback Machine 1295: 1291: 1282: 1278: 1267: 1256: 1247: 1245: 1236: 1235: 1231: 1221:Wayback Machine 1212: 1205: 1195: 1193: 1185: 1184: 1177: 1167: 1165: 1148: 1141: 1136:Wayback Machine 1123: 1116: 1112: 1059: 1054: 1052: 1049: 1042: 1039: 1030: 1020: 1011: 1005: 996: 993:Shalmaneser III 991:Throne dais of 989: 980: 977: 968: 962: 953: 947: 938: 931: 922: 919: 910: 904: 895: 888: 879: 873: 864: 859: 850: 845: 836: 802:Nouri al-Maliki 795: 779:Haider al-Abadi 775: 761:Authority head 758: 750:Ruya Foundation 746:Venice Biennale 735:Wayback Machine 709:Donny Youkhanna 704: 697: 690: 681: 674: 665: 654: 645: 634: 625: 614: 498: 490:Palestine Hotel 470:Donald Rumsfeld 413: 401:Hicham Aboutaam 355:Akkadian Empire 339:Bassetki Statue 313:), many larger 253: 224: 175: 111: 84:Collection size 61: 59: 56: 43: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 7606: 7596: 7595: 7590: 7585: 7580: 7575: 7570: 7565: 7560: 7555: 7506: 7505: 7503: 7502: 7497: 7492: 7487: 7482: 7480:Assyriologists 7477: 7471: 7469: 7465: 7464: 7462: 7461: 7456: 7451: 7446: 7441: 7436: 7431: 7425: 7423: 7419: 7418: 7416: 7415: 7410: 7405: 7399: 7397: 7393: 7392: 7390: 7389: 7387:List of rulers 7384: 7379: 7374: 7369: 7364: 7359: 7354: 7349: 7344: 7339: 7334: 7329: 7324: 7319: 7314: 7309: 7303: 7301: 7297: 7296: 7294: 7293: 7288: 7283: 7278: 7276:Proto-Armenian 7273: 7268: 7263: 7261:Middle Persian 7258: 7253: 7248: 7243: 7238: 7233: 7228: 7223: 7218: 7213: 7208: 7202: 7200: 7194: 7193: 7190: 7189: 7187: 7186: 7181: 7176: 7171: 7166: 7161: 7156: 7151: 7149:Neo-Babylonian 7146: 7141: 7136: 7131: 7129:Old Babylonian 7126: 7121: 7116: 7111: 7106: 7101: 7099:Early Dynastic 7095: 7093: 7087: 7086: 7084: 7083: 7078: 7073: 7068: 7063: 7058: 7049: 7044: 7039: 7034: 7029: 7024: 7019: 7014: 7009: 7003: 7001: 6992: 6988: 6987: 6980: 6978: 6975: 6974: 6972: 6971: 6966: 6961: 6956: 6951: 6946: 6941: 6936: 6931: 6926: 6921: 6916: 6911: 6906: 6901: 6896: 6891: 6886: 6881: 6876: 6871: 6865: 6863: 6859: 6858: 6856: 6855: 6850: 6845: 6840: 6839: 6838: 6833: 6823: 6818: 6813: 6808: 6803: 6798: 6792: 6790: 6783: 6777: 6776: 6769: 6768: 6761: 6754: 6746: 6737: 6736: 6699: 6696: 6695: 6692: 6691: 6689: 6688: 6683: 6678: 6673: 6668: 6663: 6656: 6651: 6646: 6641: 6636: 6631: 6626: 6625: 6624: 6614: 6609: 6604: 6599: 6598: 6597: 6587: 6582: 6577: 6572: 6566: 6563: 6562: 6552: 6551: 6548: 6547: 6544: 6543: 6541: 6540: 6535: 6530: 6525: 6520: 6515: 6510: 6505: 6500: 6494: 6492: 6486: 6485: 6483: 6482: 6477: 6472: 6467: 6462: 6457: 6452: 6447: 6445:Assassinations 6441: 6439: 6435: 6434: 6432: 6431: 6424: 6419: 6414: 6409: 6404: 6398: 6396: 6392: 6391: 6388: 6387: 6385: 6384: 6377: 6372: 6366: 6364: 6357: 6356: 6349: 6344: 6337: 6332: 6327: 6320: 6315: 6310: 6305: 6300: 6297:"Mrs. Anthrax" 6293: 6288: 6283: 6278: 6273: 6268: 6261: 6258:"Chemical Ali" 6254: 6247: 6246: 6245: 6230: 6228: 6220: 6219: 6209: 6208: 6205: 6204: 6201: 6200: 6198: 6197: 6196:(2017–present) 6191: 6185: 6184:(2014–present) 6179: 6173: 6167: 6161: 6159: 6155: 6154: 6152: 6150:March 19, 2008 6147: 6142: 6137: 6135:March 17, 2007 6132: 6127: 6122: 6117: 6112: 6110:March 20, 2003 6107: 6102: 6100:Halloween 2002 6097: 6095: 6089: 6088: 6086: 6085: 6080: 6073: 6066: 6061: 6056: 6051: 6049:United Nations 6046: 6041: 6036: 6035: 6034: 6023: 6020: 6019: 6017: 6016: 6011: 6004: 5998: 5996: 5989: 5985: 5984: 5981: 5980: 5978: 5977: 5972: 5970:Duelfer Report 5967: 5961: 5959: 5958:Investigations 5952: 5951: 5950: 5949: 5942:Role of Canada 5939: 5932: 5927: 5922: 5917: 5912: 5907: 5906: 5905: 5903:Hutton Inquiry 5895: 5890: 5885: 5880: 5875: 5869: 5867: 5861: 5860: 5858: 5857: 5852: 5851: 5850: 5845: 5835: 5833:Financial cost 5830: 5829: 5828: 5818: 5813: 5812: 5811: 5801: 5800: 5799: 5794: 5792:Lancet surveys 5789: 5784: 5773: 5771: 5763: 5762: 5752: 5751: 5748: 5747: 5744: 5743: 5735: 5732: 5731: 5729: 5728: 5723: 5716: 5709: 5702: 5697: 5696: 5695: 5684: 5682: 5678: 5677: 5675: 5674: 5668: 5663: 5658: 5652: 5650: 5646: 5645: 5642: 5641: 5639: 5638: 5633: 5628: 5623: 5618: 5613: 5611:Al Hillah 2011 5608: 5606:Tikrit assault 5603: 5598: 5597: 5596: 5591: 5586: 5578: 5577: 5576: 5571: 5562: 5560: 5556: 5555: 5553: 5552: 5547: 5542: 5541: 5540: 5535: 5530: 5525: 5520: 5515: 5507: 5506: 5505: 5500: 5491: 5489: 5485: 5484: 5482: 5481: 5476: 5471: 5466: 5461: 5460: 5459: 5454: 5449: 5444: 5439: 5434: 5425: 5423: 5419: 5418: 5416: 5415: 5410: 5405: 5403:Dujail bombing 5400: 5395: 5390: 5385: 5384: 5383: 5378: 5373: 5364: 5362: 5358: 5357: 5355: 5354: 5349: 5344: 5342:Amirli bombing 5339: 5334: 5329: 5324: 5319: 5318: 5317: 5312: 5310:April massacre 5304: 5299: 5294: 5289: 5287:Al Hillah 2007 5284: 5283: 5282: 5277: 5272: 5267: 5262: 5257: 5252: 5247: 5239: 5233: 5231: 5227: 5226: 5224: 5223: 5218: 5217: 5216: 5211: 5203: 5198: 5193: 5187: 5185: 5181: 5180: 5178: 5177: 5172: 5167: 5166: 5165: 5160: 5152: 5147: 5142: 5140:Al Hillah 2005 5136: 5134: 5130: 5129: 5127: 5126: 5121: 5116: 5111: 5110: 5109: 5104: 5096: 5091: 5086: 5081: 5076: 5070: 5068: 5064: 5063: 5061: 5060: 5055: 5050: 5045: 5039: 5037: 5030: 5026:Other killings 5021: 5020: 5017: 5016: 5014: 5013: 5007: 5001: 4995: 4989: 4983: 4980:Balad Air Base 4977: 4971: 4965: 4958: 4956: 4950: 4949: 4947: 4946: 4939: 4937: 4931: 4930: 4928: 4927: 4921: 4915: 4909: 4903: 4897: 4891: 4885: 4879: 4873: 4867: 4861: 4855: 4849: 4843: 4838: 4832: 4831: 4830: 4825: 4814: 4812: 4803: 4795: 4794: 4784: 4783: 4780: 4779: 4776: 4775: 4773: 4772: 4770:Abu Kamal raid 4767: 4766: 4765: 4760: 4749: 4747: 4746:Related events 4743: 4742: 4739: 4738: 4736: 4735: 4728: 4726: 4722: 4721: 4719: 4718: 4713: 4708: 4703: 4698: 4690: 4688: 4684: 4683: 4681: 4680: 4675: 4670: 4668:Route Bismarck 4665: 4660: 4655: 4650: 4645: 4640: 4634: 4632: 4628: 4627: 4625: 4624: 4619: 4614: 4609: 4604: 4599: 4593: 4591: 4587: 4586: 4584: 4583: 4578: 4573: 4568: 4563: 4558: 4552: 4550: 4546: 4545: 4543: 4538: 4533: 4528: 4523: 4518: 4513: 4508: 4503: 4498: 4493: 4488: 4483: 4478: 4471: 4469: 4465: 4464: 4462: 4461: 4456: 4454:Majar al-Kabir 4450: 4447: 4446: 4444: 4443: 4438: 4433: 4428: 4423: 4418: 4413: 4408: 4403: 4398: 4393: 4388: 4383: 4378: 4372: 4370: 4363: 4356: 4352: 4351: 4348: 4347: 4345: 4344: 4338: 4336: 4332: 4331: 4329: 4328: 4323: 4318: 4312: 4310: 4306: 4305: 4303: 4302: 4297: 4292: 4287: 4282: 4280:Saber Guardian 4277: 4272: 4267: 4262: 4260:Phantom Strike 4257: 4252: 4247: 4242: 4237: 4232: 4227: 4225:Commando Eagle 4222: 4217: 4212: 4207: 4201: 4199: 4195: 4194: 4192: 4191: 4186: 4181: 4176: 4171: 4166: 4161: 4159:Guardian Tiger 4156: 4151: 4145: 4143: 4139: 4138: 4136: 4135: 4130: 4125: 4120: 4115: 4110: 4105: 4100: 4095: 4090: 4085: 4079: 4077: 4073: 4072: 4070: 4069: 4067:Warrior's Rage 4064: 4059: 4054: 4049: 4044: 4039: 4034: 4029: 4023: 4021: 4017: 4016: 4014: 4013: 4008: 4003: 3998: 3993: 3988: 3987: 3986: 3979:Northern Delay 3976: 3971: 3966: 3961: 3956: 3951: 3946: 3941: 3936: 3931: 3925: 3923: 3916: 3908: 3907: 3894: 3893: 3890: 3889: 3886: 3885: 3882: 3881: 3879: 3878: 3873: 3868: 3863: 3858: 3853: 3847: 3845: 3839: 3838: 3836: 3835: 3830: 3825: 3820: 3815: 3810: 3805: 3800: 3794: 3788: 3786: 3780: 3779: 3777: 3776: 3771: 3766: 3760: 3755: 3750: 3745: 3740: 3735: 3734: 3733: 3728: 3718: 3713: 3711:Jeish Muhammad 3708: 3703: 3698: 3693: 3688: 3682: 3680: 3671: 3665: 3664: 3662: 3661: 3656: 3654:United Kingdom 3651: 3646: 3641: 3636: 3631: 3626: 3621: 3616: 3611: 3606: 3604:Ba'athist Iraq 3601: 3595: 3593: 3585: 3584: 3572: 3571: 3568: 3567: 3564: 3563: 3560: 3559: 3557: 3556: 3555: 3554: 3544: 3539: 3538: 3537: 3527: 3526: 3525: 3514: 3512: 3501: 3500: 3495: 3490: 3485: 3480: 3479: 3478: 3471:Reconstruction 3468: 3463: 3458: 3457: 3456: 3451: 3446: 3436: 3430: 3428: 3420: 3419: 3417: 3416: 3411: 3406: 3401: 3396: 3391: 3386: 3381: 3376: 3370: 3368: 3360: 3359: 3357: 3356: 3355: 3354: 3344: 3343: 3342: 3332: 3327: 3322: 3321: 3320: 3311: 3306: 3296: 3291: 3289:Anbar campaign 3286: 3285: 3284: 3282:2003–06 period 3274: 3269: 3263: 3261: 3253: 3252: 3242: 3241: 3238: 3237: 3234: 3233: 3231: 3230: 3225: 3220: 3215: 3208: 3206:Vilnius letter 3203: 3198: 3193: 3191:Habbush letter 3187: 3185: 3179: 3178: 3176: 3175: 3170: 3168:Preemptive war 3165: 3164: 3163: 3158: 3153: 3146:Media coverage 3143: 3138: 3133: 3128: 3119: 3114: 3113: 3112: 3102: 3097: 3096: 3095: 3090: 3079: 3077: 3073: 3072: 3070: 3069: 3064: 3063: 3062: 3057: 3052: 3050:Anthrax claims 3042: 3041: 3040: 3035: 3030: 3025: 3020: 3018:Aluminum tubes 3015: 3004: 3002: 2996: 2995: 2992: 2991: 2989: 2988: 2987: 2986: 2976: 2971: 2966: 2965: 2964: 2954: 2953: 2952: 2950:Investigations 2942: 2937: 2932: 2930:1991 uprisings 2927: 2922: 2917: 2916: 2915: 2910: 2899: 2897: 2893: 2892: 2890: 2889: 2884: 2883: 2882: 2880:Anfal campaign 2877: 2872: 2858: 2853: 2848: 2842: 2840: 2833: 2825: 2824: 2812: 2811: 2808:Iraqi conflict 2805: 2802: 2801: 2793: 2792: 2785: 2778: 2770: 2761: 2760: 2758: 2757: 2746: 2743: 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ivories 948: 941: 939: 932: 925: 923: 920: 913: 911: 905: 898: 896: 889: 882: 880: 874: 867: 865: 860: 853: 851: 846: 839: 835: 832: 808:the recovery. 794: 791: 774: 771: 757: 754: 703: 700: 699: 698: 692:Quadriga from 691: 684: 682: 675: 668: 666: 655: 648: 646: 635: 628: 626: 615: 608: 544:, and even on 497: 494: 455:Jacques Chirac 417:British Museum 412: 409: 376:The statue of 367:cylinder seals 309:and the first 252: 249: 223: 220: 183:archaeologists 174: 171: 131:المتحف العراقي 117: 116: 109: 105: 104: 101: 97: 96: 93: 89: 88: 85: 81: 80: 71: 67: 66: 53: 49: 48: 45: 44: 41: 26: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 7605: 7594: 7591: 7589: 7586: 7584: 7581: 7579: 7576: 7574: 7571: 7569: 7566: 7564: 7561: 7559: 7556: 7554: 7551: 7550: 7548: 7541: 7538: 7501: 7498: 7496: 7493: 7491: 7488: 7486: 7483: 7481: 7478: 7476: 7473: 7472: 7470: 7466: 7460: 7457: 7455: 7452: 7450: 7447: 7445: 7442: 7440: 7437: 7435: 7432: 7430: 7427: 7426: 7424: 7420: 7414: 7411: 7409: 7406: 7404: 7401: 7400: 7398: 7394: 7388: 7385: 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