During a ceremony in Bern, a Swiss government minister handed over a partial statue and two Mesopotamian reliefs to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
![Marsh Arab villages of woven reed houses on small islands dot the landscape where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet at the legendary site of the Garden of Eden [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-09/GettyImages-1211434527.jpg?h=2ffd00db&itok=fcNPG42K)
![Iraq cuneiform [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/media/images/E456D6E4-6800-4A95-B3D3-4B8550830F5C.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=P-rJ_hvr "Iraq cuneiform [Getty]")
