<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oh, dear. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Museum of the Bible, founded in 2010 by Steve Green, is in the news after the handover of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to Iraq. The cuneiform tablet is one of the many antiquities smuggled out of Iraq during the 1990s. Green’s company, Hobby Lobby, paid for the tablet during an auction with a forged letter that the artifact had been taken out of Iraq by 1981. Yikes. This isn’t the first questionable purchase Green made for the Museum, as Erin L. Thompson explains the museum’s long history of obtaining and displaying both looted and fake pieces. Check the full piece</span><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/museum-of-the-bible-looted-art-track-record.html?via=rss_flipboard" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> here. </a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Image credit: wikimedia commons</em></p>