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    The Iraq Museum (Arabic: المتحف العراقي) is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq...
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    Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. With a population of over 46...
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    Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq) was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq...
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    education for Iraqi women, served as president of the Baghdad library (the future Iraq National Library), and founded the Iraq Museum as a place to display...
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    such as the period between April 9, 2003, when the staff vacated the Iraq Museum and April 15, 2003, when US forces arrived in sufficient numbers to "restore...
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    Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present...
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    Shalmaneser, Iraq Museum Throne dais of Shalmaneser III from Fort Shalmaneser, Iraq Museum Unfinished basalt statue of Shalmaneser III, from Assur, Iraq. Ancient...
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    Baghdad (redirect from Baghdad, Iraq)
    bəg-DAD; Arabic: بَغْدَاد, romanized: Baghdād, [baɣˈdaːd] ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located...
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  • list of museums in Iraq. Amna Suraka Prison Baghdadi Museum Basrah Museum Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum Illusion Museum Erbil Erbil Civilization Museum Kurdish...
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    Warka Vase (category Objects in the National Museum of Iraq)
    Warka Vase, Iraq Museum Top register, Warka Vase, Iraq Museum Top register, Warka Vase, Iraq Museum Top register, Warka Vase, Iraq Museum Middle register...
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    Persepolis in Iran, the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and...
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    The United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 19 March 2003 and lasted just over one...
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    Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal (category Iraq–United States relations)
    items may have come from the National Museum of Iraq, which had been looted after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. Hobby Lobby made mass purchases...
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    Royal Cemetery at Ur (category Cemeteries in Iraq)
    southern Iraq. The initial excavations at Ur took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the British Museum and...
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    The Mosul Museum (Arabic: متحف الموصل) is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during...
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    Babylon (redirect from Babylon (Iraq))
    river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq about 85 kilometers south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art Sumerian dignitary, Uruk, circa 3300-3000 BCE. National Museum of Iraq. The original Warka Vase, in the National Museum of Iraq. It...
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    Hanging Gardens of Babylon (category Gardens in Iraq)
    British Museum, Vol 19, page 25, line 25 Pongratz-Leisten, Ina Sulmi Erub (1994), See Dalley (2013) ch 1 for a summary. Especially: the Iraq Museum prism...
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    Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium Middle East Basra Museum, Iraq Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq Mosul Museum, Iraq Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq Erbil...
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    Lyres of Ur (category Objects in the National Museum of Iraq)
    museums that took part in the excavations. The "Golden Lyre of Ur" or "Bull's Lyre", the finest, is in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The British Museum...
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  • Ur (category Archaeological sites in Iraq)
    British Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Baghdad Museum. At the Penn Museum the exhibition "Iraq's Ancient...
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    Nineveh (category Archaeological sites in Iraq)
    of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital...
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    Faisal II (redirect from Feisal II of Iraq)
    romanized: al-Malik Fayṣal al-thānī; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during...
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    The music of Iraq or Iraqi music, (Arabic: موسيقى عراقية), also known as the music of Mesopotamia, encompasses the music of a number of ethnic groups...
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    display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. In 2019, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was seized by US officials and was returned to Iraq in September...
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    Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is the second largest museum in Iraq, after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It houses artifacts dating...
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    The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War (Arabic: حرب الخليج الأولى), was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September...
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    Mask of Warka (category Objects in the National Museum of Iraq)
    It is in the National Museum of Iraq, having been recovered undamaged after being looted during the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. It could depict...
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    hypothesized by Wilhelm König, at the time director of the National Museum of Iraq, that the object functioned as a galvanic cell, possibly used for electroplating...
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    Tell Asmar Hoard (category Objects in the National Museum of Iraq)
    worshippers, Iraq Museum Male worshipper, Iraq Museum Male worshipper, Iraq Museum Female worshipper, Iraq Museum Seated worshiper, nude male, Iraq Museum "Standing...
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