CNN has the story about two recovered items that were looted from Baghdad’s main museum.
The Akkadian Bassetki, a copper statue of a seated man dating from 2300 BC, and an ancient Assyrian firebox that a king would have used to keep himself warm were recovered by police investigators, the authorities said Thursday.
The Bassetki statue is considered the most important of Iraq’s ancient artworks after the so-called Warka Mask of a Sumerian goddess, recovered earlier this year.
“As far as I can tell their condition is OK, although they still need a bit of cleaning up,” Russell said.
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