Missing Iraqi antiquities discovered in warehouse

BAGHDAD — More than 600 looted artifacts that were retrieved by the United States, shipped back to Iraq and then mysteriously lost finally have been found in the prime minister's warehouse alongside boxes of kitchen supplies, the Iraqi tourism minister said Monday.

The ancient pieces — including clay pots, a bronze Sumerian figurine and stone tablets etched with cuneiform writing — were returned to the Iraqi National Museum, resolving a real-life caper that began when many of them were stolen from a museum in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in 1991.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/20/100849/missing-iraqi-antiquities-discovered.html#ixzz108SKoh00

The Prime Minister’s warehouse?

I’m sure he put them there for safekeeping and just forgot about them. Stuff gets lost in warehouses all the time.

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