Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artefacts at Iraq’s National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq.
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Google employees have taken more than 14,000 pictures of the antiquities and aim to put them online in early 2010.
“I can think of no better use of our time and our resources to make the images and ideas from your civilization, from the very beginning of time, available to a billion people worldwide,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at a news conference at the Baghdad museum.
The NY Times reports Google is paying for the entire project.
You can read more about Schmidt’s visit to Baghdad in both the Reuters and NY Times articles linked above.
The Wall Street Journal article includes about four minutes of video of Schmidt answering questions and talking with a couple of members of the military.
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