The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has assembled a collection of resources aimed at helping to recover treasures from Iraq's National Museum that were looted in the spring of 2003. This slideshow contains examples of priceless works of early Mesopotamian culture found at Ur, Uruk, and Nimrud.

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iraqi cultural history, mesopotamian artifacts, mesopotamian culture, national museum of iraq, sumerian culture, ur, uruk

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