A freshly-dug looter's pit draws the interest of archaeologist Henry Wright, left, of the University of Michigan, as he surveys an ancient site in Iraq, on May 18, 2003, near the ancient southern Mesopotamian city of Larsa. Some ancient sites where civilization began, have been looted and badly damaged but others remain well-guarded, according to a team of researchers led by Wright, who conducted the first archaeological survey outside Baghdad since the war ended. From left to right are: Wright, an unidentified Iraqi driver, U.S. Marine Maj. Glenn Sadowski, an unidentified Marine from the 225th Marine battalion, and team member Elizabeth Stone, an archaeologist based at Stony Brook University in New York. (STEVE MCCURRY/AP)
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