Virtual Museum of Baghdad

Once again, Italy is responsible for making artifacts available to the world via an online virtual exhibit. They put the Via Flaminia online at at a virtual museum last year [see Virtual Via Flaminia], and now they're making visible virtual artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia, according to Italy puts Baghdad Museum online - Archaeology Daily News. The Archaeology Daily News article mentions that in 2003 15,000 artifacts were looted in a "48-hour looting spree in 2003 in the wake of the US invasion" and to-date, only 6000 have been recovered, including the Warka Mask (aka Uruk Head, 20 cm alabaster, the earliest naturalistic depiction of a face [source: Civilizations of Ancient Iraq]), which is part of the virtual exhibit.