Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to return to Iraq?

Angela

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Who knows if they'll protect it in the future if it is returned, but whoever the American "collector" was, he should lose it. These things belong to humanity, not to some tech billionaire who will hide it in his vault so only he and his friends can see it. So much for all their virtue signaling. They should reveal who it was. If people were afraid to buy them, it might cut down on the theft of these kinds of artifacts.

Well, I don't know if it was a Silicon Valley type, although I can't see the head of Walmart wanting it. :)

I first learned about the Epic of Gilgamesh in a high school theology class. It made a big impression on me how similar it was to the Noah and the Ark story in the Bible.

"NEW YORK, NEW YORK—NPR reports that U.S. federal prosecutors have filed a civil complaint in the Eastern District of New York seeking the repatriation of a 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet fragment to Iraq. The so-called Gilgamesh Dream Tablet measures about five inches by six inches. In the text on the fragment, the hero of the Gilgamesh epic describes his dreams to his mother, who interprets them for him. The government of Iraq is now trying to determine if the tablet fragment was among the thousands of artifacts stolen from regional museums during war and unrest in 1991. According to the civil complaint, the tablet surfaced in London around 2001, and was eventually sold to an American collector in a private sale in 2014. The artifact was later seized by the federal government and is now housed in a Department of Homeland Security warehouse."
 

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