IRAQ-US-ARCHEOLOGY-RECOVERED PIECES

US Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, lead investigator in finding looted treasures taken from the Baghdad Archeological Museum, directs a presentation to the press in Baghdad, 16 May 2003. Investigators have recovered 951 artifacts and determined many items had been stored for their security in pre-war hidding sites. One of the oldest known bronze relief bowls, an Assiryan pottery jar from the sixth millenium B.C., one of the earliest known Sumerian free-standing statue and a carved rock from the Babilonic period were pesented to the press. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)