Basra Museum

This building had been one of Saddam Husein's fifty palaces in Iraq, but was converted into a very fine cultural museum after his overthrow.

The ceiling of the central hall, leading to eight galleries. Each gallery had been a room, whose scale can be judged by the photo below, in one of the palaces

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One of the galleries housing the objects below.

Thought to be one of the Gilgamesh tablets

Haanah, our local guide  through both Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and Southern Iraq, exuberant as always at the entrance to the Basra Museum.