Looted antiquities returned to Nineveh

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Alaa al-Din Burhan, spokesperson for the Department of Antiquities in Nineveh has announced that today (18th August) they have received 23 Antiquities that were stolen after the looting that occurred after the U.S. invasion in 2003. Security agencies seized the antiquities in the possession of a smuggling gang that was recently arrested in Mosul. He added that in July:

107 artifacts out of 1,200 stolen pieces held by Washington were returned to Baghdad and these are now being redistributed to their original provinces. Some of the pieces received from Washington date back to the Babylonian times, including necklaces and painted pottery.

Rizan Ahmed, 'Looted antiquities returned to Nineveh', AK News (Kurdistan News Agency), 18/08/2011.

Map: Nineveh in Nineveh province (in the 'Kurdish' region) near Mosul (BBC - edited)