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Article: ENFORCEMENT RETURNS MORE THAN 1,000 ARTIFACTS TO IRAQ
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following press release:
Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), completed the repatriation of 1,046 cultural antiquities to the Government of Iraq that were seized in four separate investigations dating back to 2001.
The items, which included terra cotta cones inscribed in Cuneiform text, a praying god figurine that was once imbedded in a Sumerian temple and coins bearing the likenesses of ancient emperors, are an illustration of the long and varied history of the country now known as Iraq. Remnants of ancient Cuneiform tablets, ...