Recapturing Iraq’s treasures

Universities in the United States are using computers to create a virtual museum and catalogue of Iraq's archaeologial treasures, reports of REBECCA TROUSON. 

GALVANISED by the ransacking of Iraq's National Museum, computer scientists, archaeologists and art historians at the University of California, Berkeley, are hatching a plan to help the museum, and the war-scarred nation, resurrect at least some of what was lost.