Gilgamesh Tablet, 17,000 artifacts taken from Iraq to be returned by US
Sep 23, 2021
The U.S. will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet previously owned by craft retail chain Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. to Iraq after the Justice Department concluded it was stolen around the start of the Gulf War and sold illegally in the U.S. market.
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the formal handover of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet will take place during a ceremony on Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
The United States will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that was looted from an Iraqi museum in 1991.
