Iraq has retrieved over 40,000 stolen ancient artifacts smuggled outside of the country in the past four years from around the world, according to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities.

The “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet,” a 3,500-year-old clay cuneiform that was acquired by the arts and crafts chain store Hobby Lobby in 2014, has been forfeited to the United States, the Department of ...

A Middle Eastern expert and Princeton graduate alumnus was sentenced Monday for attempting to smuggle 4,000-year-old artifacts looted from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad into the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- ISIS extremists have reveled in destroying ancient shrines and antiquities, posting videos on social media of their vandalism. In an odd twist, however, they've inadvertently uncovered ...

Iraq’s Culture Ministry said Monday that British authorities have seized 185 artifacts of Iraqi origin, an action Baghdad cast as part of a long-running push to reclaim antiquities looted from the ...

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Updated at 12:55 p.m. ET Wednesday Nearly 4,000 ill-gotten artifacts will be returned to Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says. The ancient objects were bought by Hobby ...

On March 20, 2003, a U.S.-led coalition began its invasion of Iraq. Approximately one month later, on April 10, 2003, U.S. soldiers were on standby while looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq ...

Archaeologist Eckart Frahm didn't have much time to determine where the 4,000-year-old clay tablets had come from. Homeland Security officials had given him just 2 1/2 days in a dimly lit New York ...

ICE returned 3,800 ancient artifacts, including cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and clay bullae, to the Republic of Iraq. (ICE photo) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3,800 ...