WASHINGTON( AFP)-A 3, 500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh was returned to Iraq

ceremonially returned to Iraq on Thursday.... While the fragment of the Gilgamesh poem is the star of the

part of the Epic Of Gilgamesh, Iraq said on Tuesday( Aug 3). Tens of thousands of antiquities

Smugglers have looted Iraq of thousands of ancient artifacts, many dating back 4, 000 years, in the two decades since the U.S. invasion and fall of Saddam Hussein.... Many of Iraq’s stolen antiquities have ended up in museums and personal collections in the United States — a dynamic depriving Iraqis the fruits of their own history. Support our journalism.... Germany’s minister of culture called the restitution plan “ a moral imperative.”....

KEYHAVEN, England — Fearful of a French invasion after breaking with Rome, Henry VIII erected a line of massive coastal forts along the English Channel, and one of the most imposing is called Hurst Castle.... Its garrison protected the Allied forces on D-Day. Support our journalism.... They’re stuck where they are, built for preindustrial climates, centuries ago. Britain’s preservationists find themselves trying, sometimes struggling, “ to protect the past for the future.” They know not everyt