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The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, the lost treasures of ancient Mesopotamia, edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad

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edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster

"The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad is a reconstruction in book form of one of the world's largest and most important museums, which will never be the same again. Focusing on the objects housed at the museum and collected over decades of painstaking archaeological research and study, the book traces the rich tapestry of the history of ancient Mesopotamia from its earliest prehistory to the advent of Islam. Iraq is a country of firsts: the earliest villages, cities, writing, poetry, epic literature, temples, codified religion, armies, warfare, world economy, and empire. The archaeological artifacts that were looted represent our collective history and help us understand how civilization first began and how it evolved."--BOOK JACKET

the lost treasures of ancient Mesopotamia

Introduction / William R. Polk -- The illicit trade in looted antiquities / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Smuggling and looting in Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- Shanidar, Iraq in the beginning / Ralph and Rose Soleki, Anagnostis Agelarakis -- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford -- The small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika -- The lion hunt stele / Diana McDonald -- The Warka vase / Diana McDonald -- From village to empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins -- Akkadian victory stele / 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 -- Decoration from the Kassite temple of Karaindash from Uruk / Diana McDonald -- In the wake of Alexander: Parthians and Sassanians /Elisabetta Valtz Fino -- Alexander 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 -- Epilogue / Angela M.H. Schuster and Milbry Polk -- The gods and goddesses of ancient Mesopotamia -- References and resources / Barbara A. Porter -- About the authors