All the looting at Baghdad's Iraq Museum had taken place by the time U.S. troops—engaged in toppling Saddam Hussein—arrived to protect it, on April 16, 2003. Between April 8, when the museum ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning 2,700-year-old sculpture in Iraq, uncovering new details ... the torso was buried to shield it from looters and destruction. Local residents later helped ...

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The call was issued the same day that the FBI announced agents are being sent to Iraq to assist with criminal investigations against people who looted museums and other sites. FBI Director Robert ...

In 1991, after the Kuwait war, nine of Iraq’s regional museums were looted and damaged by mobs, with the loss of more than 4,000 artefacts. Several museum staff lost their lives and George was ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Within weeks after the U.S. took Baghdad, Iraq ground to a halt and became a free-for-all, as homes and stores, museums, hospitals and electric plants were looted. "There was a decision to be lean ...

Iraq’s National Museum, which was decimated by looters in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, reopens — but only to diplomats and other invited guests. Japanese President Taro Aso ...