AP via CNN:

Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newest exhibit immediately see a large photo of a vase almost 5,000 years old -- and missing since the looting of cultural institutions that followed the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

"Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus" examines the flowering of the world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, which is present-day Iraq

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