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FBI Takes Possession of Looted Iraqi Artifacts In January, a Marine gave an FBI agent in Pennsylvania eight small objects he'd brought home from Iraq. They were 5,000-year-old stone seals that had been looted from a site near Babylon. The FBI says it's the first recovery by its agents in the United States of looted cultural property from Iraq. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

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One of the recovered seals, made of black stone, produces a scene showing a human figure, probably the king, with a mace, facing a deity holding weapons. A goddess with hands raised, stands behind the king. Old Babylonian, ca. 2000-1500 BCE. Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology hide caption

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One of the recovered seals, made of black stone, produces a scene showing a human figure, probably the king, with a mace, facing a deity holding weapons. A goddess with hands raised, stands behind the king. Old Babylonian, ca. 2000-1500 BCE.

Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

In January, a Marine gave an FBI agent in Pennsylvania eight small objects he'd brought home from Iraq. They were 5,000-year-old stone seals that had been looted from a site near Babylon. The FBI says it's the first recovery by its agents in the United States of looted cultural property from Iraq. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.