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Nature 422, 789 (24 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422789a

Historians pool resources to halt trade in Iraq's stolen treasures

Hannah Hoag

Archaeologists are rallying in an international effort to create a catalogue of the objects stolen from the National Archaeological Museum in Baghdad earlier this month. Images and descriptions of the artefacts will be entered into a database to help law-enforcement agents crack down on illegal trafficking.