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02/26/09

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Categories: History In The News, Museums And Historic Sites

Iraq's National Museum ReOpens This Week

The Iraq National Museum was re-opened this past week on Monday February 23rd.

I was so happy to read this as regular readers of this blog would already know. I have blogged a few times on how the looting of this great museum's artifacts greatly disturbed me.

I think the re-opening of the museum will aid in the healing of this country, and its citizens who have been subjected to so much.

My wish for this museum is that they will be able to recover much of what was stolen from them. According to a BBC report only about a quarter of the estimated 15,000 artefacts stolen from the museum have been recovered to date.

Image Credit: BBC

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02/26/09

Iraq's National Museum ReOpens This Week

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