Archaeologists are trying to track down items plundered from Iraq’s National Museum of Antiquities. “They can’t put the sculptures, statues, and coins back on the shelves from which they were wrested. But they can put together a database of what was lost in the looting that followed the fall of Baghdad. By gathering as much detailed information as possible, they hope to render unsellable the thousands of artifacts stolen from Iraq’s largest museum, one of the region’s most important. The more that is known about the lost pieces, the less likely they will be able to pass into private hands on the black market, scholars and curators say.”