The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum /
On April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. Despite the presence of an American tank unit, the pillaging went unchecked, and more than 15,000 artifacts-some of the oldest evidence o...
| Основен автор: | Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Rape of Mesopotamia. |
Съдържание:
- Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view
- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period
- Getting to the postwar planning table
- The meetings
- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq
- The world responds
- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites
- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities.