Tidying the Museum
I never quite got round to writing up how this scenario ran, but here are the bits of contemporary background that I collected at the time. All copyright rests with the original authors.
The material I kept electronically was:
- Losses from Museum of Antiquities - a list compiled in mid-2003 once the looting had stopped.
- Report from Col Bogdanos the US officer in charge of the operation to locate the missing artefacts.
- Report of British Museum visit to Iraq from June 2003, sets out a professional museum curator view of the problem.
- Report on the Babylon site with maps and a chronology of what happened from the invasion to the end of 2004 or thereabouts
- Notes from a Conference on Plundering sites in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia.
There ought to be a load more stuff on the British Museum website as well, I have some printed out pages that I obviously didn't save the material electronically.
