Ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the US invasion in 2003 were put on display in Baghdad on Tuesday. Among the artifacts returned by the United States was a 3,500-year-old clay tablet bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient Sumerian tale believed to be one of the world's first pieces of literature. The tablet, displayed at the Iraqi foreign ministry headquarters, was handed to the Iraqi embassy in Washington by the city's Museum of the Bible. "We returned nearly 17,916 artifacts from different countries including the US, UK, Italy, Japan and the Nether
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