The most significant of the damaged pieces was the Golden Harp of Ur. But investigators determined that the golden head on the damaged antiquity, feared missing, was only a copy. Museum officials confirmed to investigators that the original head was placed in a storage vault at the Iraqi Central Bank sometime before the war.
Count me among those who got fooled by the initial news reports.
Grrrr.
13 posted on 05/05/2003 8:03:52 AM PDT by tictoc
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