Antiquity Experts Endorse Plans To Restore Shattered Collection

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London―His office desk is broken in three pieces and his files sit in a heap. But Donny George considers himself lucky because he found his chair intact outside the National Museum of Iraq; most of the 120 other offices in the museum were stripped bare. Last week the research director for the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities left the rubble in Baghdad for a meeting at the British Museum here. In addition to giving Western archaeologists a detailed account of the April looting, George helped hammer out an international blueprint to repair broken artifacts, recover lost items, and provide desperately needed equipment, salaries, and technical expertise to the museum staif.