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Article: War in Iraq Could Be Final Straw for Some Already Burdened Ancient Artifacts.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 24, 2003
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By Elizabeth Neuffer, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 24--NINEVEH, Iraq--All that remains of the great palace of Sennacherib, who ruled this mighty Assyrian city when it was at civilization's center 2,700 years ago, are fragments of marble reliefs lining empty rooms dug from a hillside here.
The palace's treasures, its colossal winged bulls and lion-sphinxes, vanished long ago, to museums in Paris and London in the mid-19th century. Heavy bombing during the 1991 Gulf War cracked some of what remained. Looters, driven by crippling UN sanctions, plundered much of the rest.
Now, if another war occurs, archeologists ...