The imperiled past: appreciating our cultural heritage.(Culture Watch)

From: UN Chronicle | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: Cattan, Sarah | Copyright information

In the turmoil following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, a few days were enough for Iraqi looters to ravage 7,000 years of human history.

Despite the warnings of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) experts to heed the lessons of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, at the close of which nine Iraqi museums were plundered, a new crime was committed against Iraq's cultural heritage. Looters devastated the National Museum in Baghdad, as well ...

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