Re-Opening of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad

The Assyrian gallery at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

The Iraq Museum in Baghdad, which has been shut for the past three years because of continuing political unrest and COVID, is once again open. The museum was originally founded in 1923 but suffered from significant looting after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Amongst the objects now on display is a Gilgamesh tablet which has since the invasion been in a private collection in the USA, one of some 15,000 looted objects of which only a thired have been returned.