BBC News
September 23, 2021
An ancient clay tablet displaying part of the story of a superhuman god will be returned to Iraq by the US on Thursday.
Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
It is one of the world’s oldest works of literature and was looted from an Iraqi museum during the Gulf War in 1991.
Over the past 30 years, it has been smuggled through many countries, accompanied by false documents. Until just two years ago, it was prominently displayed in a museum near the seat of the US government.