Immigration & Customs Enforcement: Civil Action Filed to Forfeit Rare Cuneiform Tablet From Hobby Lobby
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020
NEW YORK, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release:
Pursuant to ongoing Cultural Property, Arts & Antiquities investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, a civil complaint was filed Monday to forfeit a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian epic poem considered one the world's oldest works of literature. Known as the Gilgamesh Dream . . .
Pursuant to ongoing Cultural Property, Arts & Antiquities investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, a civil complaint was filed Monday to forfeit a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian epic poem considered one the world's oldest works of literature. Known as the Gilgamesh Dream . . .