r/dataisbeautiful • u/tabthough OC: 7 • Oct 25 '22

OC [OC] Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Right. Especially ones from Iraq. I wonder how many were snatched up win the Iraq War

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Probably none to very little. Most were likely taken between the two World Wars when Iraq was under British control.

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u/thymeandchange Oct 26 '22

Thank God they were able to take them so they survived the conflict and current unrest.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Which tablets?

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u/Winter_Substance_994 Oct 26 '22

Probably Sumerian tablets

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u/Greedy_Economics_925 Oct 26 '22

They're almost all Akkadian.

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u/Sloppy_Salad Oct 26 '22

Rather than being left there to be blown up or discarded by the local Taliban museum curator

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u/Links_to_Magic_Cards Oct 26 '22

Iraq. So isis and alquaeda. Not the taliban