BASRA: The United States will formally return an illegally imported 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the Epic of Gilgamesh to Iraq this week, the United Nations' cultural body United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) announced on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).
The ancient tablet, which a wealthy US collector had acquired along with other Iraqi artifacts to display in the Washington Museum of the Bible, will be handed over to Iraqi officials at the Smithsonian Institution on September 23.
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