Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq

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Gertrude Bell, director of antiquities in Iraq between 1921 and 1926. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Excavation at Babylon, ca. 1914. Photograph by Gertrude Bell. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ashur in 1911. General view of excavation site and workers. Photograph by Gertrude Bell. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Samarra, Iraq, in 1909. The Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil. Photograph by Gertrude Bell. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Gertrude Bell in Iraq, probably near Babylon, in 1909. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The German archaeologist Julius Jordan paying local excavation workers. Taken in Ashur, Iraq, in 1911. By permission of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Shah of Iran visits the Iraq National Museum accompanied by Seton Lloyd. Date unknown. By permission of Dominique Collon. The weekly tour of the Iraq National Museum in the 1940s headed by Seton Lloyd. By permission of Dominique Collon. Naji al-Asli, Seton Lloyd, and Sir Archibald Creswell at the ruins of Mustansirriya College. By permission of Dominique Collon. Removing the sculptures at Khorsabad and re-erecting them at the entrance of the new National Museum in Baghdad. By permission of Dominique Collon. U.S. military tank in front of damaged National Museum in 2003. The lions from Khorsabad are still standing. Photograph by Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images. © Getty Images. Iraq’s National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head after the National Museum was ransacked in 2003. Photograph by Mario Tama. © Getty Images. Sati’ al-Husri, director of antiquities in Iraq between 1934 and 1941. With permission from William Cleveland. ...