The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum / Lawrence Rothfield.
Publication details: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009. Description: xii, 216 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 0226729451 (hbk.) :; 9780226729459Subject(s): Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī | Iraq War, 2003- -- Destruction and pillage | Archaeological thefts -- Iraq | Iraq -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 956.704431 LOC classification: DS79.76. | R68 2009
Contents:
Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- The meetings -- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq -- The world responds -- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites -- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- The meetings -- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq -- The world responds -- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites -- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities.