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To: zonder who wrote (70079)	4/28/2003 12:37:20 PM
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"We know that the break-in at the museum was done by professionals. They came in with tools and glass cutters, and they walked right by a replica of the Code of Hammurabi, which they knew was not real," said Stony Brook University archaeologist Elizabeth Stone. "They started with the best pieces, and worked their way down." The real example of the Code of Hammurabi is in The Louvre in Paris. Stone said it had been stolen from the Mesopotamians by the Elamites millennia ago, and the French found it a century ago in Iran. There are indications, she added, that the thieves who hit the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad either knew where the museum's vault keys were or came in with the keys already in their possession. Stolen were "these big, priceless pieces that are seen on the front page of any book on world art." newsday.com

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