Thieves of Baghdad
by Matthew Bogdanos, William Patrick
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Author: Matthew Bogdanos, William PatrickEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-26
ISBN: 1582346453
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Book Review: A REALITY CHECK
Summary: 5 Stars
I read the early news reports of the looting of Baghdad, and many of them were so emotionally charged. It amazed me that people who most likely haven't been to a museum in decades, could become so charged up about the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. I smelled politics and forgot about the story. Bogdanos spoke at a biblical archaeology conference I attended in Philadelphia last fall. I later bought the book on Amazon. I found it VERY helpful to get a firsthand account of things from, not the local politicians and not from columnists who did not like the war itself--but from someone who was THERE....and not just there to do his job, but also a lover of ancient civilizations. I appreciated his insights, was intrigued by his comment that "the press was duped" into reporting the loss of 170,000 pieces when that was not true, and that they never corrected their reporting. I was especially intrigued by the observation, near the book's end, that many of the "looted" artificats had obviously been moved from secure to less secure parts of the museum by someone or some group of persons who knew which keys would or would not have been needed--as if pre-arranged for the truck that someone knew would pull up and receive the loot which then went to middlemen who already had buyers throughout the world--wealthy folks who watched the news and saw the opportunity to add a rare item to their personal collections. VERY INTERESTING OBSERVATION.........It may not be the whole story, or the only story--but it certainly is quite likely to be a larger aspect of the story.
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