Getting To Him

Misil reminisces, “The juvenile led us to an older man, who then passed us on to a man who had the Mona Lisa buried in his backyard adjoining a farm.” “We found her wrapped in an ordinary white cotton cloth buried under half a foot of earth in his backyard.”

Intact And Undamaged

Bogdanos explained, “Initially they didn’t find the Mask, but they found the owner of the farm– it’s a farm in northern Baghdad– and after interviewing the farmer, he admitted that he did in fact have an antiquity, in this case the Mask, buried in the back of his farm. The investigators went behind the farm and uncovered the Mask exactly where he had placed it, and it is intact and undamaged.”

The Raid Is Set

Once his team had done all the inspection of the area, Colonel Bogdanos gave permission for the raid to take place. The team thronged the location although the chances of finding the mask there was quite slim. Maybe the mask was no there at all.    

Hope Fades

Bogdanos had not kept his hopes high as he was not sure if they would find the mask there. Despite that, the team questioned the farm’s owner who admitted that there were a number of rare artifacts tucked under his property. So was the precious mask one of them?   

Finally Found

The police did not have to dig in deeper as the team found the objects only the six inches inside the dirt. The objects were covered in clothes and plastic bags. Luck was in their favor as they found the Lady of Uruk among the recovered objects.   

Another Insider Tip

Even after locating the stolen artifacts, their journey did not end. The team found another tip leading them to a field in proximity to Tikrit. They dug deep in the rubble and rock and found treasure keeping weapons including 23 anti-aircraft missiles.