THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

Lost Treasures From Iraq

The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Project in the Press

a selection of articles about the project as well as radio interviews with project members, to be updated periodically

April 19, 2004

• NPR (National Public Radio)
- All Things Considered: Volunteers Aid in Recovering Iraqi Artifacts (interviews with Clemens Reichel and Karen Terras, by Matthew Hackworth)
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1842826

March 17, 2004

• SWR2 (Südwestrundfunk 2)
- Kultur Heute: Geraubte Vergangenheit: Das Geschäft mit geplünderten Kulturgütern
       (report + interviews with Margarete van Ess (German Archaeological Institute) and Clemens Reichel, by Sonja Striegl)

     http://www.swr.de/swr2/sendungen/wissen-aula/archiv/2004/03/17/index.html

     (also available as a manuskript: http://db.swr.de/upload/manuskriptdienst/wissen/wi20040316_2449.rtf)

January 6, 2004

• New York Times
- Eyes on Mesopotamian Glory
By Stephen Kinzer
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/arts/design/06ORIE.html?ex=1082606400&en=1776494a0cd3ee9e&ei=5070

July 10, 2003

• CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Center) World News
- The Current: Iraqi Artifacts (interviews with Clemens Reichel; host: Laura Lynn)
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200307/20030710.html

June 26, 2003

• Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich, Switzerland)
Entwarnung ist fehl am Platz (interview with Clemens Reichel)
By Hans-Peter von Däniken
http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/dyn/news/vermischtes/288430.html

June 11, 2003

• Chicago Sun Times
U. of C. experts decry looting of Iraqi sites
By Dave Newbart
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030611.looting-st.html

May 16, 2003

• Chicago Tribune
Experts revise scope of theft from museum
By Tom Hundley
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030516.gibson-txt.html

April 29, 2003

• National Geographic News
Hunt for Stolen Iraqi Antiquities Moves to Cyberspace
by Brian Handwerk
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0429_030429_iraqlooting.html
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030429.oi-ng.html

April 28, 2003

• Wired News
Looted Iraqi Art Displayed Online
By Ryan Singel
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58640,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58640,00.html

April 27, 2003

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Antiquities experts post online Treasures of Baghdad Museum
By Robert W. Duffy
reposted at: http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/5783500.htm

April 19, 2003

• Chicago Sun Times
Scholars here make Catalog of Sacked Museum
By Dave Newbart
reposted at: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030419.scholars.html

April 18, 2003

• New York Daily News
Job for Indiana Jones & G-men
By Helen Kennedy
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/76518p-70653c.html

April 17, 2003

• Detroit Free Press
   Baghdad Treasures: Museum raid looks planned
By Matthew Schofield and Nancy A Youssef
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq/loot17_20030417.htm

• St. Petersburg Times
Iraq Museum looting may have been planned
Compiled from Times wires
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/Worldandnation/Museum_looting_may_ha.shtml

• Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich, Switzerland)
Ein Verlust von unermesslichem Wert (interview with Clemens Reichel)
By Hans-Peter von Däniken
   http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/dyn/news/vermischtes/288431.html

• Southern California Public Radio
   - Talk of the City: The Black Market for Antiquities (interview with Clemens Reichel;host: Kitty Felde)
http://www.scpr.org/programming/talkofthecity/listings/2003/04/totc_20030414.shtml

April 16, 2003

• Post Gazette
Museums try to keep stolen Iraq antiquities off market
By Caroline Abels, Post-Gazette Cultural Arts Writer
http://www.post-gazette.com/World/20030416museum0416p3.asp

April 15, 2003

• CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Center) World News
- The Current: Iraqi Artifacts (interviews with T. Cuyler Young [University of Toronto], and Clemens Reichel; host: Anna Maria Tremonti)
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200304/20030415.html

March 31, 2003

• Southern California Public Radio
- Air Talk: War in Mesopotamia (interview with Clemens Reichel; host: Larry Mantle)
http://www.scpr.org/programming/airtalk/listings/2003/03/airtalk_20030331.shtml

- Talk of the City: The Ancient History of Iraq (interview with McGuire Gibson; host: Kitty Felde)
http://www.scpr.org/programming/talkofthecity/listings/2003/03/totc_20030331.shtml

March 20, 2003

• Newsday.com
Archeologists fear for Iraqi Sites--Scholars urge that Antiquities be protected during War
By Robert Cooke
reposted at: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030320.gibson.html

March 10, 2003

• Chicago Tribune
Casualty count could include Iraq Antiquities
By Bill Glauber
reposted at: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030310.gibson-ct.html

March 1, 2003

• CNN
Experts fear for Iraq's archaeological treasure
By Alphonso Van Marsh
reposted at: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030301.iraq.html

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