Biography

Donny George was born on October 23, 1950 in Habania, Iraq. He was married to Najat Sarkees. He died on March 11, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Friend of documentary filmmaker Gwendolen Cates.

He was an archaeologist who tried to stop the looting of the Iraq National Museum in 2003. He led the recovery of about half of the estimated 15,000 stolen objects.

His main interests were the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian civilizations which predated the Islamic conquest in the seventh century.

In his spare time, he was a drummer in a rock band.

There are stages such as these, and then there are stages of calm. Each can last 100 years, but it passes. A famous Sumerian writer described the scene here in 2000 BC, saying that people are looting and killing, and nobody knows who the king is. So you see, nothing is new.