The rape of Mesopotamia: behind the looting of the Iraq Museum
In April, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. The pillaging went unchecked and more than 15,000 artifacts were stolen. This book looks at how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur.
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| Zusammenfassung: | In April, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. The pillaging went unchecked and more than 15,000 artifacts were stolen. This book looks at how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 216 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780226729459 0226729451 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1
Cultural Heritage Protection in Iraq before
2003:
The Long View
4
2
Nobody Thought of Culture : War-Related Heritage
Protection in the Early Prewar Period
21
3
Getting to the Postwar Planning Table
34
4
The Meetings
56
s A
Punctual Disaster: The Looting of the National
Museum of Iraq
81
6
The World Responds
101
7
The Slow-Motion Disaster: Post-Combat Looting
of Archaeological Sites
124
8
Deathwatch for Iraqi Antiquities
136
Coda
153
Appendix: Interviews
159
Motes
161
Bibliography
189
Index
205
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