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Iraq reclaims 17,000 looted artefacts from the US in its biggest-ever repatriation
Iraq has reclaimed 17,000 artefacts in the country's largest repatriation of looted antiquities.
Thousands of clay tablets and seals, artefacts from Mesopotamia, were part of the largest-ever repatriation of looted Iraqi antiquities.
Archaeologists suspect the collection came from a looted archaeological site in the south of Iraq.
The archaeological artefacts were returned to the custody of The Iraqi Culture Ministry by a museum and an Ivy League university.
Around 12,000 of the items had been held by the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
Over 5,000 of the other pieces, from a previously unknown Sumerian city of Garsana, had been held by Cornell University.
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