5 hours agoAmerica returns 17 thousand stolen artifacts to Iraq, including the Gilgamesh plaque
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The United States will restore more than 17 thousand ancient artifacts that were stolen or stolen from Iraq after the American invasion of 2003, including a three thousand-year-old clay plaque that includes the Ep of Gilgamesh. Tens of thousands of antiquitys had disappeared from Iraq after America and [...]
Tens of thousands of antiquitys had disappeared from Iraq after America brought down its leader from power, Saddam Hussein.
Many others had been looted or destroyed by the Islamic State. [ I The SIS, which held a third of Iraq under control between 2014 and 2017 before being defeated by Iraq and international forces, reports Guardian, translates Periscope.
American authorities working on these artifacts have recently reached agreement with Baghdad to return them.
The American authorities had kidnapped Gilgamesh's plaque in 2019 after being robbed, auctioned, and sold to an art dealer from Oklahoma. /Periscope
