Posted on 05/08/2003 4:30:35 PM PDT by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON - More than 700 artefacts and tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts that had been missing from the National Museum in Baghdad have been recovered by teams of investigators in Iraq, US officials said on Wednesday.
Some of the missing works were stored in underground vaults before the United States-led invasion of the country.
The US investigators located the vaults over the past week.
They forced them open, revealing hundreds of artefacts that had apparently been stored there to protect them from being damaged in a US assault.
The find included ancient jewellery, pottery and sarcophaguses, officials said.
The discovery of so many valuable artefacts would support the view of Iraqi museum officials and American investigators who have said that while many irreplaceable antiquities were looted from the museum during the fall of Baghdad last month, the losses were less severe than thought.
Earlier this week, a top official of the British Museum, Mr John Curtis, said his Iraqi counterparts had told him that they had largely emptied display cases at the National Museum in the months before the start of the war, storing many of the most precious artefacts in secure hiding places. -- New York Times
Yes it is! It must really suck to be one of those faux freepers who were continually knocking the American military.
They revealed their true motives throughout the past three weeks as the truth began to trickle down in various articles leading up to this one. I guess they get together quite often and agree over the Koran to never admit they were wrong.
Yes, they know we know. They just don't know that they don't know.
Not really FReepers, just a bunch of chickensh!t DU plants trying to stir up a little trouble. I think we chased 'em back over to the dark side.
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