Scholars working to retrieve looted Iraqi treasures
There has been much discussion about the looting and destruction of Iraq’s cultural treasures, be they museum antiquities or library materials. Here’s an article from the May 22 Harvard University Gazette about some ways Harvard’s faculty and staff are contributing to the international efforts to recover or replace these materials. There’s also some mention of Andras Riedlmayer and his colleague’s efforts to help rebuild libraries and museums in Bosnia after the battles in the 1990s there.
