A 5000 B.C HASSUNA POWDERY VASE IS ACCOUNTED FOR AFTER IT WAS RETURNED SIX
DAYS AGO AT THE IRAQ MUSEUM IN BAGHDAD.

A 5000 B.C Hassuna powdery vase is accounted for after it was returned six
days ago at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, May 4, 2003. Museum staff have
confirmed 27 pieces are still missing after looters entered the premises in
the early hours after the fall of Baghdad. The museum's collection included
Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldean and Abbasid artifacts.
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