Saturday, October 8, 2011

Iraqi delegation to Switzerland to restore the effects of stolen ancient artifacts and coins of gold and silver ...

09/10/2011

Iraqi delegation to Switzerland to restore the effects of a stolen

Baghdad on a conciliator is scheduled to leave today, a delegation from the General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage to the Swiss city of Geneva to restore Iraqi antiquities stolen back to the eras of the Assyrian.

A media source in the special permit for "morning": that a delegation from the Commission will leave today to Geneva in order to recognize the effects of Iraqi stolen during the eighties and nineties of the last century, indicating that these effects is a stone slabs Assyrian back to the capitals of the Assyrian province of Nineveh.

The delegation also agreed with a company specialized on the transfer of antiquities from Switzerland to Iraq with the application procedures for insurance fundamentalism in order to ensure arrival in the proper form as a prelude to re-display in the halls of the National Museum.

The source added that the Authority intends to establish a festive occasion in the building of the museum to display relics recovered in general up to hundreds of artifacts.

The body revealed days before being able to restore 38 thousand pieces of ancient and quest at the same time to recover 10 000 relics of other stolen Iraqi museum is a cylindrical seals of stone and some stone statues and a large number of clay tablets, coins of gold and silver.

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