Foreign Ministry: The Tablet "Gilgamesh's Dream" Arrives In Baghdad Tomorrow

Baghdad / NINA / - The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, announced: "The "Dream of Gilgamesh" tablet will arrive in Baghdad tomorrow," noting that "the diplomacy of recovery has returned more than 17,500 antiquities during this year." It is reported that the "Dream of Gilgamesh" is a 3500-year-old clay tablet containing inscriptions in the Sumerian language for parts of the poetic "Epic of Gilgamesh." It was stolen from Iraq and traded in international auctions in 1991, and in 2007 it was entered into the American art market, and then it was confiscated by US Department of Justice 2019./End