Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq's national museum
- Written by Craig Barker, Education Manager, Sydney University Museums, University of Sydney
On April 10 2003, the first looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq. Staff had vacated two days earlier, ahead of the advance of US forces on Baghdad. The museum was effectively ransacked for the next 36 hours until employees returned.
The National Museum of Iraq in the wake of looting in 2003.Jamal SaidiWhile the staff - showing enormous...