The Iraqi government has recovered more than 6,000 historical artifacts that were smuggled out of the country, a high-level Iraqi official said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a conference on Iraqi cultural heritage in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, Ali Obaid Shalgam, the head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, said the number of historical artifacts that were returned to the country under the Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani-led government reached 6,250 and that they were being safely kept at the Iraq Museum.
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