I'm Kanishthauruur and in this last part of the Museum of Lost Objects were on the shadowy trail of looters and traffickers.

The chaos of war makes it difficult to protect ancient sites.

In Iraq and Syria, many historic artifacts continue to be looted and smuggled

onto the international black market. One of the many horrible costs of war is this destruction

of cultural heritage.

I feel as an Iraqi there's not a lot in our modern history to be, you know proud of so for many Iraqis we draw a lot

on our ancient history on the history of Mesopotamia home to the first

civilizations of the world I feel very proud and so these sites are a

strong reminder of that heritage of that pride.

If you follow the course of the Tigris River from Mosul and northern Iraq,

just around 20 miles downstream, you'll end up at the site of Nimrut.

It's my favorite ancient archaeological sites.

This is Mark Altawille, an Iraqi archaeologist whose ancestors come from Mussel.

And even the ancient floors were sort of wobble and in some ways that gave it the ancient

field you got a sense of what a palace was like when you walked in there.

We're adding to a museum of lost objects a sculpture that was plucked from

Nimruth, an ancient Assyrian capital,

and journeyed along the shadowy parts of the black market

until it reached a very modern global capital, London.

It's currently guarded by Scotland Yard, not accessible to the public,

and there's no idea of when or if it will ever resurface.

It was a genie.

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