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One of the former main attractions in Baghdad is the National Museum of Iraq. While the outside of the building still looks good compared to other buildings, the content exhibited remains just a shadow of its old glory. Still, it contains precious relics from Mesopotamian civilization but thousands of those relics were looted in 2003 during the Iraq War and about half of the museums former collection is still missing.

National Museum of Iraq ©Flickr salam pax

The remaining collections still are amongst the most important in the world. It contains important artifacts from the over 5,000 year long history of Mesopotamia and with it, of many different civilizations and empires.