(11 Feb 2025)
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Baghdad, Iraq – 11 February 2025
1. Various of recovered artifacts on display at the Iraqi National Museum
2. Various of recovered marble artifacts on display in museum
3. Various of stone tablet inside glass with description, text reading (Arabic): “Piece recovered from Switzerland: A stone tablet depicting a scene of an Assyrian warrior with cuneiform writing."
4. Various of artifacts and coins displayed behind glass
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Hussein, Iraqi Foreign Minister:
“We begin this year with the recovery of the statue of the sun god, Maran Shamash, and rare murals from the 8th century B.C. belonging to the Assyrian civilization, along with several textured paintings from the al-Tar ancient caves in Holy Karbala, which was borrowed by the Japanese mission working in those caves in 1975."
6. Various of Iraqi ministers looking at returned artifacts
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Hussein, foreign minister of Iraq:
“The recovery of this important cultural heritage is the result of the diplomatic efforts of the foreign ministry, and especially the legal department, the staff at the embassies of the Republic of Iraq’s in Tokyo and Bern, and the relevant institutions in Japan and Switzerland."
8. Various of recovered textured paintings in glasses
9. Various of the statue of Nabu (the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and knowledge) outside the Iraqi National Museum
STORYLINE:
Iraq’s foreign minister announced Tuesday the recovery of several artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland.
Iraq has recovered "the statue of the sun god, Maran Shamash, and rare murals from the 8th century B.C. belonging to the Assyrian civilization, along with several textured paintings from the al-Tar ancient caves," said Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.
Some of these artifacts, like the textured paintings, were loaned to an archaeological Japanese mission that worked in Iraq in the 1970s, Hussein said.
The antiquities, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and the Assyrian civilization, were handed over to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry through Iraq’s embassies in Tokyo and Bern.
Many of Iraq’s antiquities were looted throughout decades of wars and instability.
The country is dotted with ancient archaeological sites that have little or no protection but Iraq’s government has been slowly recovering its plundered antiquities in recent years.
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