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Photographs of Iraqi antiquities seized in Lebanon October 2008

Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly responded to my posting on IraqCrisis of a report from AFP entitled "Iraqi antiquities seized in Lebanon: customs".

Her response to me included a set of photographs of some of the objects confiscated from the smugglers. Those photographs are published here with her kind permission.

Read entire article at http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com (Click to see pics.)