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  • Missing (Baghdad) museum artefacts found safe in vaults

    05/08/2003 4:30:35 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 47 replies · 289+ views
    The Straits Times ^ | May 8, 2003 | The Straits Times
    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...