Saving Iraqi Culture

Saving Iraqi culture (Arabic: نصب انقاذ الثقافة, romanized: Nasb Enqath al-Thaqafa) is a monument located in the Mansour district of Baghdad. It was commissioned in 2010 by the Mayor of Baghdad and designed by Iraqi sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat. The monument shows a broken cylinder seal, with hands and arms attempting to support it so as not to fall. The cuneiform on the seal reads writing began here.

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1. Iraq War
2. Casualties of the Iraq War
3. Execution of Saddam Hussein
4. Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
5. Iraqi conflict
6. Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
7. Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq
8. Fallujah during the Iraq War
9. 2003 invasion of Iraq
10. Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
11. Iraqi Governing Council
12. Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
13. Second Battle of Fallujah
14. Multi-National Force – Iraq
15. Rationale for the Iraq War
16. Archaeological looting in Iraq
17. Outline of the Iraq War
18. Coalition Provisional Authority
19. British involvement in the Iraq War
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