The FBI announced the world's ten largest art stolen list

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"Madonna's" stolen together and scream all belong to MengKe during the 1893-1894 portrait of rough life "series. Scream, MengKe famous paintings, in August 2004 in Norway MengKe memorial was mlb jerseys masked robber armed party is going. "The virgin Mary and the well wind"
Tens of thousands of pieces of cultural relics in Iraq
Leonardo Da Vinci's "the virgin like"
Rembrandt's self-portraits
Gold sculpture "salt disc"
Murray, the violin
Two of van gogh painting
Renoir painting
Cezanne paintings
MaNai paintings
Carla tile Joe paintings
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Art theft has now become one of the world's leading criminal activities. The fbi FBI11 announced on May 15, the global "10 big art BeiDaoAn", the artwork is worth a total of us $600 million, including the Da Vinci, Rembrandt, MengKe, van gogh and masters of art works handed down from ancient times. Publish the list of stolen art is to look for the public to help solve crimes, and inhibit amounted to about 6 billion dollars a year of the black market.
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Tens of thousands of pieces of cultural relics in Iraq
Value: can't estimate
Stolen time: 2003 3, 4 month
Stolen site: Baghdad
In 2003, 3 ~ 4 months that the American and British forces bombing let the Iraqi capital, Baghdad into a chaos of city, and in the confusion, tens of thousands of Iraqi culture and the historical treasure was crazy to wash out the mob. One of the most terrible loss is undoubtedly Iraq national museum of the precious relics, they are Mesopotamia cultural records, so far less than 4000 a come back. For example that the name is "Warka, the heads of the" marble sculpture (YouShangTu), is an Iraqi Semitic women's head reduction sculpture. History experts say the loss of art was a loss for mankind.
According to the report, and no one in the land of the mob as easily into Iraq national museum, many precious ceramic art and sculpture smashed, some wooden cases fall on the ground, the display of goods was cast out. Some even the old gate museum removed towed away. This museum is the main cultural relics collection of Iraq, including a collection of 4000 years ago ur of the silver harp. Some of the rooms museum almost best sunglasses empty, displaying on nothing. The robbers, including foreign war correspondent and U.S. soldiers, the American airport customs had intercepted some war correspondent and the entrainment of cultural relics of the American soldiers in Iraq.
Because of the war chaos, Iraq national museum was the extent of the losses can't calculation, also don't know how many relics were smuggled out of Iraq border into the international black market in cultural relics. Many historical organization have called for, to take action as soon as possible, to prevent this batch of precious cultural relics of the further loss.
Cultural treasures be miserably trampled
Iraq national museum is regarded as one of the world cultural treasure, founded in the 1920 s, the collection covers two river valley from the new Stone Age, to the Sumerian city-states, Babylon empire, the Assyrian empire, until the period of modern Arab precious relics, listed by UNESCO as world 11 big museum.
The museum had collected 1950 two river basin of a large unearthed cultural relics, including ancient times had lived in two rivers of all nationalities, all times of precious cultural relics, show the different national create both, and the line of distinctive bright culture. The museum was also the library collection nearly 6000 kinds of manuscripts and 70000 copies of books in different languages, is the study of the two rivers valley civilization indispensable cultural treasures. However, Iraq war changed the fate of the national museum.
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