The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad the lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia
Introduction / William R. Polk -- Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Erasing the past: looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani W...
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New York, NY
Abrams
2005
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Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī
> Matḥaf al-ʻIrāqī
> Iraq War, 2003
> Destruction and pillage
> Archaeological thefts
> Iraq
> Iraq War, 2003-2011
> Antiquities
> Bildband
> Aufsatzsammlung
> Mesopotamien
> Geschichte
> al- Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī
> Kriegsschaden
> Golfkrieg
> Kunst
> Plünderung
> Geschichte Anfänge-1900
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction / William R. Polk -- Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Erasing the past: looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- Iraq in the beginning / Ralph Soleki -- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford -- Small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika -- The lion hunt stele / Diana McDonald -- The Warka vase / Diana McDonald -- From village to empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins -- Akkadian victory stele / Diana McDonald -- Akkadian head of a king / Diana McDonald -- The birth of writing, the dawn of literature / Robert D. Biggs -- Cylinder seal impression / Diana McDonald -- Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade -- Assyrian ivory lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald -- From the Kassite temple of Karaindash / Diana McDonald -- In the wake of Alexander /Elisabetta Valtz Fino -- Alexander the Great coin /Diana McDonald -- The coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge -- Baghdad through the ages / Vincenzo Strika -- The ravages of war and the challenge of reconstruction / Selma al-Radi -- The recovery of the Nimrud gold / Diana McDonald -- The fall of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani -- Epilogue / Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster -- References and resources / Barbara A. Porter. Literaturverz. S. 219 - 227 |
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| Beschreibung: | 242 S. zahlr. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0810958724 0-8109-5872-4 |