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al-Kadhimi inaugurates renovated national museumCategory: Iraq NewsDate: 2022-03-06T13:46:42+0000Shafaq News/ Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa
Al-Kadhimi inaugurated the newly-renovated National Museum in Baghdad on Sunday. The event came after many artifacts and relics previously
smuggled abroad and kept in foreign museums were returned to Iraq. In early February, over 300 Iraqi artifacts were returned to the country
from Lebanon, where they had been kept in a private museum. Kadhimi visited a section of the museum containing recovered archeological
pieces from five countries, including the US, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, and Lebanon, according to a statement from his office. The
Iraqi PM called on the cultural authorities to continue efforts to bring back those archeological items, many of which had been stolen from
the country’s national museum before and after the toppling of the former Baathist regime in 2003. He also called on the educational
officials to organize regular trips to the museum for Iraqi students so they can become more familiar with their country’s
heritage. “One who does not own a history will not have a future,” Kadhimi said. In 2021, the Iraqi foreign ministry announced that
nearly 18,000 artifacts had been returned from abroad. A 3,500-year-old clay tablet featuring an engraving from part of the ancient
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