The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad the lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia Polk, Milbry 1954- editor Schuster, Angela M. H. editor Iraq National Museum of Baghdad text bibliography nyu New York, NY Harry N. Abrams, Publishers 2005 monographic eng
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xiii, 242 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. Introduction / William R. Polk -- Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Erasing the past : looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hâeláene Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum / Usam Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- In the beginning / Ralph Solecki -- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford -- Small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika -- The lion hunt stela / Diana McDonald -- The Warka vase / Diana McDonald -- From village to empire : the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins -- Akkadian victory stela / Diana McDonald -- Akkadian head of a king / Diana McDonald -- The birth of writing, the dawn of literature / Robert D. Biggs -- Cylinder seal impression / Diana McDonald -- Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade -- Assyrian ivory lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald -- From the Kassite temple of Karaindash / Diana McDonald -- In the wake of Alexander the Great / Elisabetta Valtz Fino -- Alexander the Great coin / Diana McDonald -- The coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge -- Baghdad through the ages / Vincenzo Strika -- The ravages of war and the challenge of reconstruction / Selma al-Radi -- The recovery of the Nimrud gold / Diana McDonald -- The fall of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani. edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index. a-iq--- n-us--- Mathaf al-Iraqi. Museo Nacional de Irak Iraq War, 2003- Destruction and pillage Guerra de Irak, 2003-2011 Destrucción y saqueo Archaeological thefts Iraq Robos arqueológicos Irak Iraq Antiquities Irak Antigüedades 414 DS 79.76 L863 2005 935/.0074/56747 0810958724 (hc : alk. paper) 9780810958722 (hc : alk. paper) 2004023525 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023525.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023525.html DLC 041005 20260825152857.0 85876