Gilgamesh Dream Tablet: Iraq puts looted artefact on display
year-old Gilgamesh Dream Tablet has gone on display in Iraq for the first time in three decades./ The clay artefact bears part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature./ It was looted from an Iraqi museum during the 1991 Gulf War and smuggled through many countries before ending up at Washington DC's Museum of the Bible./ US authorities seized the tablet in 2019 and handed it over to the Iraqi embassy in September./ It is one of 17,926 artefacts recovered by Iraq from the US, UK, Italy, Japan and the ...
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