With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Iraqi National Museum receives 1,000 antiquities unearthed at sites south of Baghdad

aqi archaeologists working in a city south of Baghdad unearthed more than 1,000
antiquities and delivered them Monday to the National Museum, which has struggled to rebuild its
collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion.

The museum has been closed to the public since 2003, but curators have been trying to recover some
of the 15,000 stolen relics and piece together a collection.

Qais Hussein, who directs Iraqi archaeological digs, said the antiquities presented Monday were
discovered by three teams at the beginning of the year in the Shiite city of Diwaniyah, 130
kilometers (80 miles) south of Baghdad.
Read entire article at AP