GB
founded Iraq's national museum
in Baghdad, which until 2003 remained a world repository of artefacts from early Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization.
The museum was looted and sacked in April 2003, following the...
death
Gertrude Bell
King George V
sent a letter of condolence to her parents. GB
left £50,000 in her will to the Baghdad Museum
, which she had founded. A plaque was set up there commemorating her, and...
