@TBowmanNPR @lrozen #Iraq May 1855, a ship bearing two-hundred cases of Assyrian antiquities excavated at Khorsabad being shipped to The Louvre, was sunk and lost above a confluence on the Tigris River. 28 cases were found.
In 1971, a Japan team went on a mission after it.
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