re: Your pantload, Tom
And from the web site of a professional archaeologist (oh, right, he's not relevant because he's a product of the left-wing contaminated higher education system)...
• 100 artifacts in public galleries: 30% missing, 21% damaged
• 485,174 artifacts in storage inside Museum: 3% missing, 4% damaged
• 7,360 artifacts in storage in Central Bank: 0% missing, 3% damaged
• 8,366 artifacts in storage elsewhere outside the Museum: 0% missing, 4% damaged
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501,000 artifacts in total, of which 3% (12,558) missing and 4% (17,633) damaged
In addition he lists over 20 archaeological sites in Iraq that have been looted during and after the war.
This is the cradle of western civilization. To try to trivialize the losses is shameful.