A new show opens today at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. It’s called “Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past”. Not coincidentally, today is the 5th anniversary of the looting of Baghdad’s Iraq National Museum.
From the Museum’s website:
The looting of the Iraq Museum was widely publicized in the international press. However, it is less well known that ongoing looting of archaeological sites poses an even greater threat to the cultural heritage of Iraq.