Current Museum Counts
''There is a steady progress in defining the loss of artifacts in museums in Baghdad and Mosul,'' MacGregor told a news conference Tuesday.
However, deteriorating security and lack of electricity are hampering the work of drawing up inventories of what is missing, experts said.
Looters smashed many artifacts, making it difficult for the 44 staffers at the Baghdad museum to reassemble them and determine what has been stolen and what is damaged, said Nawal al-Mutawalli, director of Iraq's museums.
She said the list of items missing from storage rooms of Baghdad's museum alone now stands at 13,000. In addition, 47,000 pieces are missing from the museum's exhibition hall, several of them major masterpieces.
Happened to stumble across this today, figured you would want to see the latest count so you can correct you page.
Still not a final count. That number will go up as further documentation is done and go down as items thought missing are discovered or looted items returned.
Jay