Plans are being made for a world tour of Iraqi art treasures. “The travelling show, provisionally entitled ‘The gold of Nimrud’ is being planned as a blockbuster exhibition that will include hundreds of Assyrian objects from Iraqi museums. It will embark on a three- to five-year international tour beginning in early 2005. If all goes according to plan, the show will visit eight to 12 cities in Europe, the US, and Asia.”