 (KUNA) -- Iraqi police confiscated on Friday stolen antiquities and arrested the smugglers in Thee Gar province southern Iraq, Ministry of Interior said on Friday. The antiquities underwent lab tests and it has been discovered that some were original and others were fake, the ministry's statement said. According to the statement the original pieces were "a pottery jar with two handles with a notched opening, two black stone fragments with a cuneiform writing on it, a hollow sculpture with no head and the lower part" The number of the smugglers is not reported. |