A 3,500-year-old tablet featuring the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh is returned to Iraq three decades after it was stolen and illegally imported to the US
The Epic of Gilgamesh is considered one of the oldest pieces of literature in the world, telling the story of a Mesopotamian king on a quest for immortality.
"This day represent a victory in the face of the desperate attempts of those who try to steal our great history and our ancient civilisation," Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said. Believed to have been looted from Iraq around 1991, the ancient tablet reappeared in Britain in 2001.
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