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re: Your pantload, Tom

An article from CNEWS indicates slightly more than "30 articles, some ceramics, and some boxes of beads."

Looters smashed many artifacts, making it difficult for the 44 staffers at the Baghdad museum to reassemble them and determine what has been stolen and what is damaged, said Nawal al-Mutawalli, director of Iraq's museums.

She said the list of items missing from storage rooms of Baghdad's museum alone now stands at 13,000. In addition, 47,000 pieces are missing from the museum's exhibition hall, several of them major masterpieces.

Staffers had so far only checked half the items in the storage rooms. "We expect the number of missing items to rise," al-Mutawalli said.

The missing items include the Akkadian Basitki statue, the bronze statue of Akki from 2300 BC, al-Mutawalli said. Looters also took the heads of five Roman statues on display in the museum's exhibition hall, smashing the bodies into pieces, she said.


I think the reason that it's not in the news much any more is due to the short attention span of viewers/readers and the low level of "sexiness" of ancient artifacts, rather than to any bias in the media as you seem to imply.

There were many precious and important relics lost. This is tragic no matter how you look at it.

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