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According to Iraqi Culture Minister Hassan Nazim, the artifacts will be repatriated on the plane of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s flight back to the Middle East after meeting US President Joe Biden in Washington DC.
“This move is the largest return of antiquities to Iraq and the result of months of efforts by Iraqi authorities and the embassy in Washington,” Nazim said.
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He expressed hope regarding the US move. “In the near future we will be able to repatriate our other belongings, especially in Europe,” he said.
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His ministry identified the artifacts as recordings of “commercial exchanges during the Sumerian period” as well as some that are historically prominent, such as a 3,500-year-old clay tablet with a sequence from the famous epic Gilgamesh.
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The tablet, along with other artifacts, was confiscated by the US Department of Justice in 2019 after being placed two years earlier at the Bible Museum in Washington, which documents and displays the history of the ancient Bible.
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