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To: zonder who wrote (70085)	4/28/2003 1:15:19 PM
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Not Newsday, rather, Stony Brook University archaeologist Elizabeth Stone. "...Stony Brook University (of New York) archaeologist Elizabeth Stone was a graduate student in 1975 when she spotted a cuneiform exhibit related to her dissertation. Iraqi museum authorities told her she didn't have the credentials to merit special access. "So I came back in 1986, and they said it would be fine, except they had put the tablets in vaults to keep them safe from bombardment during the Iran-Iraq war," Stone recalled. "Now I'll never see them. ... Looters ... destroyed an archive of more than 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets " cmonitor.com

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