Iraqi antiquities are displayed throughout a ceremony held on the Nationwide Museum of Beirut earlier than 337 artifacts had been handed over by Lebanese Minister of Tradition Mohammed Murtada to Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon on Feb. 6, 2022. (AP Picture/Bilal Hussein)
BEIRUT --
Lebanon's Ministry of Tradition handed over to Iraq on Sunday 337 historical artifacts that had been on show in a Lebanese museum for years.
The gadgets, which included clay tablets, had been returned by Minister of Tradition Mohammed Murtada to Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon throughout a ceremony held on the Nationwide Museum of Beirut.
Murtada advised Iraq's state-run information company in a Saturday report that a Lebanese committee had been investigating the gadgets since 2018.
The artifacts had been saved most just lately on the personal Nabu Museum in northern Lebanon. The report gave no additional particulars concerning the artifacts' provenance.
"We're celebrating the handing over of 337 artifacts which can be of various eras of civilizations in Mesopotamia," Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon Haider Shyaa Al-Barrak stated on the ceremony. This is not going to be the final handover, he added, with out elaborating.
Lots of Iraq's antiquities had been looted throughout the nation's a long time of conflict and instability, principally because the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Iraq's authorities has been slowly recovering the plundered antiquities since then. Archaeological websites throughout the nation nevertheless proceed to be uncared for attributable to lack of funds.
No less than half dozen shipments of antiquities and paperwork have been returned to Iraq's museum since 2016, in response to Iraqi authorities.
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