Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum by Rothfield, Lawrence - 2009

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Chicago Press, 2009-04-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First printing.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Cloth, xii, 216 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Foreedge/text block lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "On April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. Despite the presence of an American tank unit, the pillaging went unchecked, and more than 15,000 artifacts--some of the oldest evidence of human culture--disappeared into the shadowy worldwide market in illicit antiquities. In the five years since that day, the losses have only mounted, with gangs digging up roughly half a million artifacts that had previously been unexcavated; the loss to our shared human heritage is incalculable. With The Rape of Mesopotamia, Lawrence Rothfield answers the complicated question of how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur. Drawing on extensive interviews with soldiers, bureaucrats, war… Read More

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University of Chicago Press, 2009-04-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!