Sumerian antiquities returned to Iraq

In 2018, after years in police storage, 8 objects were taken to the British Museum for analysis. They were quickly identified as being from the site of ancient Girsu (modern Tello) in Southern Iraq, one of the earliest known cities of the world. The British Museum has been conducting archaeological excavations there since 2016. Inscriptions linked the cones with the Eninnu temple complex at Girsu.

It's believed the objects were removed in 2003, around the time of the fall of Saddam Hussein.