A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq. The $1.7 million ...
One of the oldest documented works of literature, carved on a cuneiform clay tablet, was returned to Iraq on Tuesday, years after it was looted from that country and later purchased by the owners of ...
WASHINGTON — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq. The ...
The United States returned an ancient cuneiform tablet inscribed with part of the Epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest known literary works — to the Iraqi government Thursday, after the rare ...
A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States. The tablet, which bears a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a ...
Federal prosecutors moved Monday to formally confiscate a rare cuneiform tablet that bears part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest works of literature, from a Bible-themed museum ...
A 3,500-year-old clay tablet that bears the text of one of the world’s oldest works of literature and was purchased by Hobby Lobby in 2014 for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States, the ...
One of the oldest documented works of literature, carved on a cuneiform clay tablet, was returned to Iraq on Tuesday, years after it was looted from that country and later purchased by the owners of ...