Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to an enormous loss of cultural heritage for the country: An ...

The case of Iraq and the context of looting. Preserving Iraq's heritage from looting : what went wrong (within the United States) / Lawrence Rothfield -- Preparations at the Iraq Museum in the lead-up ...

LONDON — The British Museum said on Thursday it is returning to Iraq a collection of 5,000-year-old looted antiquities seized from a London dealer shortly after the US-led invasion in 2003. The eight ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has faced scandals over its acquisition of looted or fake antiquities since even before it opened to the public three years ago. The museum says it has ...

Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)-- Several hundred ancient artifacts stolen from the Iraqi Museum during the wave of looting that hit Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime have been returned to the ...

Some of the looters who ravaged Iraqi antiquities had keys to museum vaults and were able to take pieces from safes, experts said today at an international meeting to assess the damage to Iraq's ...

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to an enormous loss of cultural heritage for the country: An estimated 15,000 objects, some millennia old, were looted from the Iraq ...