Col. Matthew Bogdanos discusses lost art in first Huntsville Museum of Art Voices of Our Times lecture series
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On Feb. 9 at the Huntsville Museum of Art, Col. Matthew Bogdanos will discuss works that were stolen from the National Museum of Iraq, including this solid gold bull's head that adorned Queen Puabi's (Shub-Ad) Golden Harp of Ur, from the Early Dynastic III Period, ca. 2600-2500 B.C. (Photo courtesy of Matthew Bogdanos)HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - In April 2003, U.S. Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos was on a counter-terrorism mission in Basra, Iraq, when a BBC reporter approached him and made a demand.
"She said 'the finest museum in the world is being looted. What are you going to do about it?' " Bogdanos said in a recent telephone interview from his office in New York City.
The museum in question was the National Museum of Iraq, which is located in Baghdad and is home to some of the most important relics from the 5,000 years of Mesopotamian civilization.
All the reporter knew when she approached Bogdanos that day was that he was an American military officer. She didn't know that in his personal life Bogdanos was a welter-weight boxer, a prosecutor in the New York County District Attorney's office or that he had a master's degree in classics from Columbia University.
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