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Ancient Gilgamesh tablet back in Iraq after three decades / V000_9U73JE
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A 3,500-year-old tablet featuring the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh is exhibited at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as it was returned to Iraq three decades after it was stolen and illegally imported to the US. The clay tablet features characters in cuneiform and is believed to have been stolen from an Iraqi museum in 1991 while the country was caught up in the first Gulf War. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES