The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Subtitle: the lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia
By: edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster.
Contributors: Polk, Milbry.; Schuster, Angela M. H.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers; Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Matḥaf al-ʻIrāqī; Iraq War, 2003- -- Destruction and pillage; Archaeological thefts -- Iraq; Iraq -- Antiquities
Description: "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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William R. Polk; title: Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster; title: Erasing the past: looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton; title: A short history of the Iraq National Museum / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini; title: A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr; title: In the beginning / Ralph Soleki; title: Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford; title: Small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika; title: The lion hunt stele / Diana McDonald; title: The Warka vase / Diana McDonald; title: From village to empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins; title: Akkadian victory stele / Diana McDonald; title: Akkadian head of a king / Diana McDonald; title: The birth of writing, the dawn of literature / Robert D. Biggs; title: Cylinder seal impression / Diana McDonald; title: Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade; title: Assyrian ivory lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald; title: From the Kassite temple of Karaindash /  Diana McDonald; title: In the wake of Alexander the Great / Elisabetta Valtz Fino; title: Alexander the Great coin / Diana McDonald; title: The coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge; title: Baghdad through the ages / Vincenzo Strika; title: The ravages of war and the challenge of reconstruction / Selma al-Radi; title: The recovery of the Nimrud gold / Diana McDonald; title: The fall of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani; title: Epilogue / Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster; title: References and resources / Barbara A. Porter.