NAME: IRQ ANTIQ 20100107I TAPE: EF10/0018 IN_TIME: 11:17:09:03 DURATION: 00:01:22:19 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Nasiriyah - 6 Jan 2010 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Mid of artifacts displayed on table 2. Various of artifacts 3. Iraqi officials and guard standing behind table tilt down to artifacts 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul-Amir al-Hamdani, Archaeologist, Inspector of archaeology in Thi Qar province: "There are a good quantity of artifacts that the fifth police regiment was able to return. These important antiquities date back to early Iraqi civilisation. Some of them date back to the age of the predawn of Sumerian dynasties, others date back to the modern Sumerian age, about 21st Century BC." 5. Iraqi officials looking at artifacts STORYLINE Iraqi officials on Wednesday, put on display for journalists a small cache of ancient statues and other artifacts that were seized in the south of the country after authorities feared the items would be smuggled abroad. The 39 artifacts were discovered hidden near a shrine outside the city of Nasiriyah. They include statues and shards with writing dating back to ancient Sumerian civilisation, which is at least 4-thousand years old. Police seized the artifacts on Tuesday after a tip off that they were going to be smuggled to Iran, officials said on condition of anonymity. "These important antiquities date back to early Iraqi civilisation," Abdul-Amir al-Hamdani, inspector of archaeology in Thi Qar province, told AP Television. "Some of them date back to the age of the predawn of Sumerian dynasties, others date back to the modern Sumerian age, about 21st Century BC.'''' Iraqi law says all artifacts more than 200 years old have to be handed over to the Iraqi government for inspection. The country is dotted with ancient archaeological sites that have little or no protection. The US military was heavily criticised for not protecting the National Museum''s treasure of relics and art following Baghdad''s fall in 2003. Thieves ransacked the collection, stealing or destroying priceless artifacts that chronicled some 7-thousand years of civilisation in Mesopotamia, including the ancient Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians. Iraqi and world culture officials have struggled to retrieve the treasures but met with little success. Up to 7-thousand pieces were still believed missing when the museum reopened last year. A US military officer said the sale of stolen antiquities is believed to have helped finance Iraqi extremist groups.

b&w travelogue - ancient Mesopotamia - Iraq history - Middle East - Sumerians - map - civilization - ruins - Egypt - columns - landscape - countryside - human statues - represent ancient culture - toys - baby rattle - toy chariot - invention of the wheel - cart - ox - brick laying - clay bricks - workers lay bricks - arch - architecture - clay tablets - cuneiform writing - language

ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

b&w travelogue - ancient Mesopotamia - Iraq history - Middle East - map - B.C. - semites - human statue - beard - sumerians - King Hammurabi - stone carving - code of laws etched in stone - cylinder seals - clay impression - Babylonian Empire - Babylon - countryside - mountains - cattle - nomads - nomadic people - assyrians - horses - chariot depiction - wheel - carvings - bow and arrow - landscape - ruins

TAPE: EF03/0858 IN_TIME: 23:15:46 DURATION: 1:38 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Baghdad - 23 Sep 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Lady of Warka being brought into the museum 2. Various of Lady of Warka 3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Dr Jabir Ibrahim, Head of Antiquities Commission, Iraqi National Museum: "With all the happiness of this occasion, the museum employees thank all the people responsible for helping us to get back the head of the Lady of Warka." 4. Various of Lady of Warka 5. Various of relics at Iraqi National Museum 6. People looking at exhibition at Iraqi National Museum STORYLINE: One of Iraq's most precious relics, looted during the fall of Baghdad, was handed back to the Iraqi national museum on Tuesday. Dr. Jabir Ibrahim, Head of the museum's Antiquities Commission thanked US soldiers and Iraqi police for their efforts in recovering the Lady of Warka. The 5,200-year-old artifact, known as 'the Sumerian Mona Lisa' is a representation of female face. It was found buried in an orchard on the outskirts of Baghdad after the Antiquities Department was tipped off by people who had reported seeing it there. According to Ibrahim, the department received information in mid-August about a group of people trying to sell the Lady of Warka. The negotiations collapsed for unknown reasons, and the relic was subsequently hidden in the orchard. The artifact, from the ancient city of Warka in southern Iraq, was recovered on September 16 in a joint operation conducted by U.S. military police and Iraqi police. The looting and destruction in April 2003 triggered deep criticism of U.S. forces both in Iraq and abroad. Museum curators and archaeologists worldwide said the United States should have protected the precious treasures, dating to the earliest days of settled human history. Some looted items have been recovered under a no-questions-asked amnesty programme, while others were found in raids or in government vaults where they had been put for safekeeping. Ibrahim said, however, that Iraqi authorities had recovered only about 2,000 of 13,000 looted treasures. The museum, still closed, is now guarded by the Iraqi police forces that work under the supervision of the U.S. military. A gallery of artifacts from the Assyrian era is expected to reopen soon.

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AP-APTN-2330: Iraq Artefacts Tuesday, 7 September 2010 STORY:Iraq Artefacts- REPLAY Hundreds of looted artefacts are returned to Iraq LENGTH: 01:25 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 656958 DATELINE: Baghdad - 7 Sept 2010 LENGTH: 01:25 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Various of 4,400-year-old statue of Sumerian king Entemena in crate 2. Wide of media in front of statue 3. Various of artefacts looted from national museum 4. Mid of chrome-plated AK-47 with a pearl hand grip bearing Saddam Hussein's image 5. Wide of news conference 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi Foreign Minister: "Our ministry has received from its missions abroad over the past 5 years, invaluable and precious pieces of artefacts in a continuous process that has never stopped. So we have received for example 623 pieces from our embassy in Washington." 7. Wide of end of news conference STORYLINE Hundreds of Iraqi artefacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. More than 500 pieces were on display at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, including a 4,400-year-old statue of Sumerian king, Entemena, discovered in the 1920s at the ancient city of Ur, in southern Iraq. The headless statue was stolen from the Iraqi National Museum during the looting and chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. "Our ministry has received from its missions abroad over the past 5 years, invaluable and precious pieces of artefacts in a continuous process that has never stopped," said the country's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. Among the youngest pieces of Iraq's past returned was a chrome-plated AK-47 with a pearl hand grip bearing Saddam Hussein's image. It was taken to the US by an American soldier as a war trophy. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 09-07-10 1950EDT

AP-APTN-1830: Iraq Artefacts Tuesday, 7 September 2010 STORY:Iraq Artefacts- REPLAY Hundreds of looted artefacts are returned to Iraq LENGTH: 01:25 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 656958 DATELINE: Baghdad - 7 Sept 2010 LENGTH: 01:25 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Various of 4,400-year-old statue of Sumerian king Entemena in crate 2. Wide of media in front of statue 3. Various of artefacts looted from national museum 4. Mid of chrome-plated AK-47 with a pearl hand grip bearing Saddam Hussein's image 5. Wide of news conference 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi Foreign Minister: "Our ministry has received from its missions abroad over the past 5 years, invaluable and precious pieces of artefacts in a continuous process that has never stopped. So we have received for example 623 pieces from our embassy in Washington." 7. Wide of end of news conference STORYLINE Hundreds of Iraqi artefacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. More than 500 pieces were on display at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, including a 4,400-year-old statue of Sumerian king, Entemena, discovered in the 1920s at the ancient city of Ur, in southern Iraq. The headless statue was stolen from the Iraqi National Museum during the looting and chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. "Our ministry has received from its missions abroad over the past 5 years, invaluable and precious pieces of artefacts in a continuous process that has never stopped," said the country's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. Among the youngest pieces of Iraq's past returned was a chrome-plated AK-47 with a pearl hand grip bearing Saddam Hussein's image. It was taken to the US by an American soldier as a war trophy. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 09-07-10 1436EDT

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TAPE: IN_TIME: DURATION: 1:15 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: see script DATELINE: various, April 27, 2003 (1. Taiwan SARS - nurse tries to throw herself out of window) As the SARS epidemic continues to grip East Asia nurses in a Taiwan hospital try to throw themselves out of windows to protest a mandatory quarantine for health workers. (2. NKorea SARS) Meanwhile hospital staff in the secretive communist state of North Korea start an education programme to raise awareness of the condition. So far there have been no reported cases in North Korea. (3. Iraq POWs) Prisoners of war taken by American and British troops in Iraq are being allowed to return to their families. Around 200 Iraqis cheered and smiled as they boarded buses in the port city of Umm Qasr. (4. Iraq Ur) US troops have begun to guard the ancient city of Ur -- held to be birthplace of the Old Testament patriarch Abraham. The city was built by the Sumerians six thousand years ago. (5. Pakistan Poppies) Pakistan government forces have fought running battles with tribesmen in the North West Frontier provinces as they try to eradicate poppy fields. Farmers in the area say their livelihoods are being destroyed

TAPE: EF03/0361 IN_TIME: 03:16:08 DURATION: 2:33 SOURCES: ABC RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various - 12/18 April 2003 SHOTLIST: Baghdad, Recent 1. US soldiers on tank in front of museum 2. US soldier guarding front entrance to Iraqi National Museum FILE - Baghdad, 12 April, 2003 3. Woman crying at devastation being comforted by colleague US - 18 April, 2003 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Donny George, Director Iraq Board of Antiquities: "It's a great shock. The word anger is not enough." 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Stone, Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University: "It's just inconceivable that we could have allowed this to happen and I think that's why there is an almost puzzlement of 'how did this happen', is it because it's somebody else's history and not ours?" FILE - Baghdad, 12 April, 2003 6. Walking through the broken glass of the museum 7. Museum worker chases looters out of museum STILLS - Recent 8. Various of stolen artifacts FILE - Baghdad, 12 April, 2003 9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) "This is the property of this nation, and is the treasure of seven-thousand years of civilisation - what does this country think it is doing?" 10. Wreckage of museum and US soldiers walking around US - 18 April, 2003 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Wilkinson, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago: "It is actually their responsibility to look after the cultural history of that property as much as they can within the chaos of war." STILLS - Recent 12. Various including the Warka Vase From Uruk, a Sumerian piece from 3200 B.C., a bronze statue of a seated man from 2400 B.C. the famous Harp of Ur, where the Bible says the prophet Abraham was born FILE - Baghdad, 12 April, 2003 13. Exterior museum 14. Interior museum with documents all over floor US - 18 April, 2003 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Stone, Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University: "Everything we did in terms of talking to the Pentagon said this is the crucial thing." FILE - Baghdad, Recent 16. US soldiers patrolling 17. Hole in side of museum building FILE - Baghdad, 12 April, 2003 18. Woman clears up broken ceramics 19. Broken statue on floor STORYLINE: American scholars accused the Pentagon on Friday of failing to take note of forewarnings about the possible destruction of Iraq's national treasures. The famed Iraq National Museum, was home to extraordinary Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian collections and rare Islamic texts, until looters stripped it of an estimated 70,000 pieces after the fall of Baghdad last week. Speaking to ABC news, Elizabeth Stone, Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, said the fact that US forces had allowed the looting was "just inconceivable". Tony Wilkinson from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, said it was a responsiblity of the US-led forces to look after the cultural history of the country. The National Museum was home to ancient archeological artifacts from the Tigris-Euphrates basin, widely held to be the site of the world's earliest civilisations. Everything that could be carried out has disappeared from the museum - gold bowls and drinking cups, ritual masks worn in funerals, elaborately wrought headdresses, lyres studded with jewels - priceless craftsmanship from ancient Mesopotamia. Scholars hope to organise an Internet database of the missing items to thwart their sale on the black market. They plan to offer to repair items damaged by looters and push for a plan to buy back items if necessary.

NAME: IRQ ANTIQUITIES 040404N TAPE: EF04/0374 IN_TIME: 10:21:52:08 DURATION: 00:01:11:15 SOURCES: SKY DATELINE: Baghdad, recent RESTRICTIONS: No Access UK/CNNi SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of ancient arch in Baghdad 2. Various of archaeological site in Baghdad 3. Wide interior of looted Baghdad museum 4. Empty glass case 5. Small statue 6. Pot 7. Tilt up of statue with no head 8. Museum staff wheeling trolley with artifacts 9. Archaeologist Ahmed Kamil talking to colleague over pieces 10. Trays with archaeological pieces 11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Dr Ahmed Kamil, Baghdad museum: "Now it''s not so important to know who looted those pieces, it''s vital to get them back here, not only for Iraq but for all the humanity and civilization." 12. Archaeologist uncovering ancient mask 13. Archaeologists talking next to a broken statue 14. Tilt down of ancient arch, UPSOUND of Muslim calls to prayer STORYLINE: A year after the looting of Baghdad museum, over 10-thousand priceless relics are still missing. When the Iraqi capital fell to coalition forces a year ago and US troops were trying to secure the city, the museum was raided by looters. The museum was ransacked and many of the antiquities later appeared on the black market. Others were broken up into small pieces and smuggled abroad. Specialists believe that the archaeological pieces are scattered across America, Europe and the Middle East. Dr Ahmed Kamil, an archaeologist from the Baghdad museum said the priority now is to recover the pieces rather investigate who stole them. Some valuable pieces have been returned to the museum, but the hunt for missing artifacts is receiving scant priority in a country still ravaged by war. The United States was criticized by archaeologists and historians worldwide for failing to protect the treasures displayed at the Iraq National Museum, which included collections from the Assyrian, Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. Authorities have managed to recover only a fraction of the artifacts stolen in three days of looting after U.S. troops rolled into Baghdad in April.

NAME: IRQ NASIRIYAH 170804N TAPE: EF04/0824 IN_TIME: 10:51:34:22 DURATION: 00:02:54:01 SOURCES: Various DATELINE: Nasiriyah - 16 Aug 2004 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: APTN 1. Various street scenes 2. Various of market where abduction took place 3. Shopkeeper talking to interviewer 4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ala (surname withheld), stallholder: "Last Friday while we were standing here, masked men came and took a foreign journalist and stole his camera and his money. Then the took him away. They were shouting, 'He is an American, he is a spy.'" 5. Various of cars and people in the street 6. Exterior of museum 7. Sign reading "Nasiriyah Museum" 8. Various of deputy governor at desk 9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Adnan al-Shoraify, deputy governor of Dhi Qar province: "While the journalist, Micah Garen, and the translator, Amir Dosuhi, were shopping in the market, masked men came and kidnapped them and took them to an unknown destination. This is not typical of the population of Nasiriyah." 10. Wide of deputy governor in his office Museum director 11. Two stills of Garen (with salt-and-pepper hair) 12. Various video of Garen and Doushi APTN 13. Street scene STORYLINE: Iraqi police said on Monday that a Western journalist, Micah Garen, 36, and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were kidnapped as they walked through a crowded market in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Witnesses said the men were abducted on Friday by two men in civilian clothes and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, Iraqi Police Capt. Haidar Aboud said. A stallholder in the market who saw the abduction said the armed men stole Garen's camera and his money, then took him away, shouting, "He is an American, he is a spy." Adnan al-Shoraify, deputy governor of Dhi Qar province, said Garen was a journalist with U.S.-French citizenship who worked for US-based Four Corners Media and was working on a project involving antiquities near Nasiriyah. Garen's story focused on the widespread theft of artefacts following the fall of Saddam Hussein, and he had become friends with the director of the museum in Nasiriyah. Garen's fiancee, Marie-Helene Carleton, said on Monday that he has a "passion" for Sumerian archaeology and had been working to safeguard artefacts. Carleton is Garen's colleague and co-founder of Four Corners Media, which, according to its Web site, is a documentary company working in photography, video, and print. She said their firm's work has appeared on the US public broadcaster PBS, in Archaeology Magazine, and in The New York Times.

TAPE: EF03/0411 IN_TIME: 22:42:21 DURATION: 2:31 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, 5 May 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot pan exterior museum 2. Close up banner for exhibit "Art of the First Cities" 3. Wide shot gallery 4. Close up 'Bull Standard', Anatolia, late third millennium BC 5. Close up 'Standard of Ur', Ur, Mesopotamia, 2550-2400 BC 6. Detail, 'Standard of Ur' 7. Pan across 'Standard of Ur' 8. Close up and zoom out Bull's head and inlaid front panel from a lyre, Ur, Mesopotamia, 2550-2400 BC 9. Medium shot person looking at Bull's head 10. Tilt up, Bull's head 11. Medium shot person looking at Bull's head 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mahrukh Tarapor, Associated Director of exhibitions, Metropolitan Museum: "I think above all it gives this exhibition a poignancy, you know, we can't make it a celebration, we just can't. Typically the opening of an exhibition is a great celebration and it doesn't feel that now. I mean there's a sense of sadness, there's a sense of wonder, well, okay, this, did the Baghdad museum have something like this. There are objects in this exhibition that relate to objects that we know were in the Baghdad museum, have those survived, have they not. I think the situation is still so ambiguous one just doesn't know." 13. Rack focus between objects in exhibit 14. Close up Recumbent Human-Headed Bull or Bison, Syria, Akkadian, 2300-2159 BC 15. Close up Recumbent Human-Headed Bull or Bison, Syria, Akkadian, 2300-2159 BC 16. Medium shot, two items on loan from Syria, Foundation Peg of a Lion with Inscribed Plate and Stone Tablet, Syria, Akkadian, 2300-2159 BC 17. Close up lion object from Syria 18. Close up lion object from Syria 19. Medium shot Standing Nude Belted Male Figure, Gulf region, Mid-late third millennium BC 20. Close up tilt down, Standing Nude Belted Male Figure 21. Zoom out Bull's Head, Gulf region, Late third millennium BC STORYLINE: The "Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus" will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 8. The exhibition focuses on the emergence of early civilization, 5-thousand years ago in Mesopotamia_ present day Iraq. The show examines the evolution of art and culture in the area of land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and its impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world. Some fifty museums from more than a dozen countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are participating in the exhibition, lending national treasures that have rarely, if ever, been sent outside the walls of their art institutions. But the opening has been tainted by the extensive looting that took place across Iraq and included raids on museums across the country. Experts have said that numerous pieces of art - some believed to be priceless antiquities - were plundered from Iraqi museums and libraries in the chaotic aftermath of the US-led invasion. Iraq's museums held millennia-old artworks from the Assyrian, Sumerian and Babylonian cultures.