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Ancient tablet acquired by Hobby Lobby going back to Iraq
by Colleen Long
The Associated Press Translate This Article
23 September 2021
On 23 September 2021 The Associated Press reported:
A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq. The $1.7 million cuneiform clay tablet was found in 1853 as part of a 12-tablet collection in the rubble of the library of Assyrian King Assur Banipal. Officials believe it was illegally imported into the United States in 2003, then sold to Hobby Lobby and eventually put on display in its Museum of the Bible in the nation's capital.
Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of culture, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.
... The tablet -- known as the Gilgamesh Dream tablet -- is part of a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world's oldest works of literature, and one of the oldest religious texts.
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