Article: Secrets of Sargon. (Mesopotamian art at the newly opened Iraq Museum)

Article: British Museum hopes to loan 4,000-year-old ...
AP Worldstream;  March 8, 2004 ;     288 words ... ... Worldstream 03-08-2004 Dateline: LONDON The British Museum said Monday it had purchased a 4,000-year-old ... said. It will tour Britain this year as part of the British Museum's 250th anniversary celebrations. "She has never ...

Article: The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
Apollo;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of he contents of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, the only ... the collections of the Iraq Museum in Bagdhad, and have ... all the riches of the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan ... western collections, the Iraq Museum's primacy is entirely ...

Article: BOGDANOS '80 TELLS OF IRAQ MUSEUM RESCUE MISSION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... antiquities stolen from the Iraq Museum, as documented in his ... Saddam Hussein, the Iraq Museum was looted. Bogdanos ... Bogdanos equated the Iraq Museum with the Louvre, the ... Museum of Art, and the British Museum. "We know it as a ...

Article: Mess O'Potamian Art.(Culture)(Baghad's Iraq Museum)
Newsweek;  February 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... pieces. In the renovated Assyrian gallery of Baghdad's Iraq Museum, archeologist Amira Edan al-Dahab was doing what she likes ... a Nubian man. It was one of a pair; the other is in the British Museum. There are bright spots. When the violence eased in southern ...

Article: At least 8,000 treasures looted from Iraq museum ...
Belfast Telegraph;  May 24, 2005 ;     618 words ... ... the art crime conference yesterday by John Curtis of the British Museum, suggested that half of the 40 iconic items from the Iraq ... cultural organisation, with advice from experts at the British Museum, has been unable to start work for similar reasons.The ...

Article: Iraq museum curators trying to assess the loss
International Herald Tribune;  April 17, 2003 ;     567 words ... ... 600 B.C., and a carved sacred cup also the same age.In the last several days, officials from both UNESCO and the British Museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Mesopotamian antiquities, said they would send experts to Iraq to help ...

Article: Prized Statue Returned to Iraq Museum
AP Online;  July 26, 2006 ;     341 words ... ... ancient Iraq. It was excavated in the early 20th century near a temple in southern Iraq by University of Pennsylvania and British Museum researchers. Along with hundreds of other valuable cultural pieces, the statue was taken from the Iraq National Museum ...