Baghdad has agreed with the U.S. to return 10,000 artifacts, stolen or exported from Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003. Values ​​returned to his homeland to August 2014

Director of the National Museum of Iraq Baha al-Mayahi
and her colleagues are studying the artifacts arrived in Baghdad in May
2013
Source: artdaily.com

Baghdad reached an agreement with the U.S. on the return of 10,000 artifacts, stolen or exported from Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003 year. This was reported by the director of the National Museum of Iraq and adviser to the Ministry of Baha al-Mayahi (Baha al-Mayahi). All valuables stolen in Iraq, who are now in the United States, should be repatriated to August 2014. Yet to work out all the details of the procedure of return; before sending the artifacts to their homeland, they all need to be registered in the electronic archive at Cornell University in New York. The parties have agreed that they will not understand how these artifacts were in the United States. American authorities have now been returned to Iraq 1500 items.

According to Baha al-Mayahi, during the war of the National Museum of Iraq by looters had stolen up to 15,000 items. More than 4,000 items are able to return to the museum. The authorities have repatriated about 130,000 artifacts stolen from other Iraqi museums and archaeological sites, but the whereabouts of tens of thousands of items are still unknown.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru