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The Museum of Lost Objects: Looted in Iraq
Kanishk Tharoor traces the histories of treasures that have been destroyed or looted during the recent wars in Iraq and Syria.
Kanishk Tharoor goes on the murky trail of the missing Genie of Nimrud 鈥� a huge, 3,000-year-old carved figure that once protected a palace; the Winged-Bull of Nineveh, an Assyrian sculpture that guarded the gates of one of the most fabled cities in antiquity; and a looted Sumerian seal stolen in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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