In Iraq�s national museum, home to some of the world�s most precious artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, a caption beside a skeleton simply reads in English: �dated to very old time.�
And some of the museum�s most impressive pieces carry no labels at all � like a giant stone head lying on the ground that may or may not belong on a nearby empty pedestal labeled �Assyrian King Nimrod,� the Biblical tormentor of the patriarch Abraham.