Baghdad, National Museum of Iraq

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The National Museum of Baghdad was looted in 2003 but has been reopened and is now accessible to visitors. The collection contains finds from Prehistory, Sumer (e.g., Ur), Assyria, Babylonia, and more recent periods (e.g., Hatra). Many objects are still missing.

23 pictures related to this museum

Hatra, Catapult	Hatra, Eleventh temple, Aramaic Inscription	Uruk, Eanna, Façade, Goddess	Uruk, Relief of a hunter (Jamdat Nasr Period)
Khorsabad, Relief with king and courtiers	Ur, Royal Tombs, Harp	Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby	Uruk, Old-Babylonian geometrical tablet
Uruk, Eanna, Façade	Ur, Statuette of a goddess	Nippur, Statuette of a lady (ED III)	Khorsabad, Two lamassus
Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince	Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest	Uruk, Portrait of a Sumerian woman (Jamdat Nasr Period)	Hatra, Model of a small temple
Ur, Game	Nimrud, Throne platform of Šalmaneser III, Relief of tribute bearers	Uruk King List, obverse	Ur, Royal Tombs, Harp, Bull's head
Nimrud, Northwest Palace of Aššurnasirpal II, Two lamassus	Uruk King List, reverse	Hatra, Parthian pottery