AMMAN (Reuters) - Iraq took delivery on Sunday of more than 2,000 ancient artefacts seized by Jordanian border officials after being looted from archaeological sites and Baghdad's national museum during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
At a ceremony, Jordan's tourism minister Maha al-Khatib, who presented the pieces to Iraq's antiquities minister Mohammed al-Uraibi, said the handover showed the effective measures to prevent its borders being used as a conduit for smugglers.
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