Google Chief Announces Plan to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online

Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, had just made a presentation inside the museum, announcing that his company would create a virtual copy of the museum’s collections at its own expense, and make images of four millenniums of archaeological treasures available online, free, by early next year.
He was addressing Iraqi officials, journalists and American Embassy officials, along with a platoon of bodyguards, gathered at the museum in a small conference room with a 50-foot-high ceiling. “I can think of no better use of our time and our resources than to make the images and the ideas of your civilization available to all the people of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said.

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