Thu, Feb 20, 2020
Foreign Minister Mr. Mohamad A. Alhakim delivered to the Minister of Culture Mr. Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani antiquities recovered by Ministry from several countries. These pieces included 156 Cuneiform tablets received by the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in London from the British Museum, and a file containing 250 documents dating back to the second century, which is correspondence belonging to the royal family received by our embassy in Riyadh from the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, and a piece received by our embassy in Seoul from a German citizen taken from the Ziggurat Ur, and an antique was received by our embassy in Bern from an Iraqi family residing in Switzerland.
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