US returns ancient Gilgamesh tablet to Iraq

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 25, 2021 12:10 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the Epic of Gilgamesh was returned to Iraq on Thursday (Friday in Manila) after being stolen three decades ago and illegally imported to the United States.

Iraqi Cultural Minister Hassan Nazim accepted the tablet during a ceremony in Washington.

PRIZED ARTIFACT A man photographs the Gilgamesh Tablet, a 3,500-year-old Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet that was believed to be looted from Iraq around 1991 and illegally imported into the US to be displayed at the Washington Museum of the Bible, during a ceremony to repatriate the tablet to Iraq at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 23, 2021. AFP PHOTO

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