The United States will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that was looted from an Iraqi museum in 1991. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the ...

The United States has returned a portion of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" back to the Republic of Iraq, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The rare Sumerian poem was illegally transported ...

The ancient artifact, which contains a portion of the Gilgamesh epic, is going back to Iraq after having been stolen from there some 30 years ago. By Tom Mashberg A 3,500-year-old clay tablet ...

A U.S. District Court in New York has ordered the craft chain Hobby Lobby to forfeit the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a rare cuneiform text from ancient Mesopotamia that was smuggled into the country from ...

The Department of Justice announced that it seized a tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh. According to the DOJ, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was smuggled into the US and then auctioned off. The ancient ...

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago is headed back to Iraq. Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it was acquired by the company Hobby Lobby in 2014 for ...

Editor’s Note, September 23, 2021: Two months after Hobby Lobby forfeited the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to the United States government, the 3,500-year-old artifact is officially headed home to Iraq. As ...

Hobby Lobby, which purchased a 3,500-year-old tablet determined to contain a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was ordered by a United States district court on Monday to forfeit the artifact due to ...