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Check out this article on a collection of Sumerian cylinder seals which were looted in 2003 and have yet to be located.
“It was terrible. You didn’t want to believe it,” says Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani, who worked for many years at the museum before moving to London.
The 4,500-year-old Harp of Ur, one of a collection of finds that comprise the world’s oldest stringed instruments, was later found smashed in the car park, stripped of its gold inlay and precious stones.
Someone even stole the 150kg Bassetki Statue, a 4,000-year-old copper monument showing the legs of a seated nude figure. Cracks on the staircase and floor suggested its new owners dropped it a few times on their way out the building.
