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)
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