*Ø* Blogmanac | Iraq recovers priceless "Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia" looted from museum

I'm sure we all recall how the US and its Coalition of the Killing stood by and, for reasons not yet made public, allowed the looting of Baghdad museums and hospitals when they had more than enough military power to stop it. Now, some good news regarding this appalling crime, the recovery of the 'Lady of Warka', a Sumerian mask:

"There was some good good news in Baghdad with Iraq's new culture minister announcing that a 5,000-year-old sculpture looted from the Baghdad Museum in April had been recovered ...

"The 20-centimeter (eight-inch) high marble sculpture, dating from 3,000 BC, depicts the head of a woman. It was fashioned in the southern city of Warka during the Sumerian period, and was among the five most precious pieces still missing since the museum was sacked after the April 9 fall of Saddam Hussein.

"Yet there are many more artefacts still to be recovered.

"Jaaber Jelil Ibrahim, Iraq's director general of antiquities, recently told AFP that around 13,000 pieces are still to be found, 32 of them of great value."
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