Milestones: Donny George (1950–2011)

Donny George, the former head of Iraq’s National Museum and a leading figure in the recovery of antiquities looted from the country’s museums and archaeological sites following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died in March after suffering a heart attack at the Toronto airport. He was 60 years old. George, an Assyrian Christian born with the last name Youkhanna in the town of Habbaniya in central Iraq, helped lead the international campaign to recover the more than 15,000 objects stolen from the National Museum in Baghdad at the start of the Iraq War in March 2003.a Named the […]