What is National Museum of Iraq?
{{coord|33.3283|N|44.3854|E|scale:1250_type:landmark|display=title}} [[File:National Museum Iraq.jpg|thumb|250px|right|the entrance to National Museum of Iraq]] The '''Iraq Museum''', lately known as the '''National Museum of Iraq''' ({{lang-ar|المتحف العراقي}}), is a [[history]] [[museum]] in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]]. It shows the history of the civilizations of [[Mesopotamia]], [[Assyria]] and [[Babylon]]. The museum was started in 1926 by the [[British]] mandate in the [[Middle East]]. == Other websites == * [http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it The Virtual Museum of Iraq] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611204952/http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/ |date=2009-06-11 }} * [http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html Lost Treasures from Iraq] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040320050022/http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html |date=2004-03-20 }} Illustrated site by University of Chicago * [http://iwa.univie.ac.at The 2003- Iraq War & Archaeology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328023330/http://iwa.univie.ac.at/ |date=2016-03-28 }} * [http://www.ajaonline.org/newsletter/110 Bogdanos, Matthew. The Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum American Journal of Archaeology, 109, 3 (July 2005)] * [https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/iraqcrisis University of Chicago] * [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/729459.html Rothfield, Lawrence. ''The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum'', excerpt] [[Category:National museums in Asia|Iraq]] [[Category:1926 establishments in Asia]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Baghdad]] {{Asia-stub}} {{authority control}}