American and Iraqi officials probably know where most of the art from Iraq’s National Museum is, says a top curator from the British Museum. “In a news conference at the museum and a subsequent interview, John Curtis said he believed that American authorities now knew the locations of the artifact repositories but that as a precaution against further looting were not disclosing them. In Iraq yesterday, American and Iraqi officials appeared to support this assessment, saying they still did not know precisely what was missing from the National Museum, because they had not yet had access to sites where art objects may have been hidden, or to rooms inside the building that were among the looters’ targets. But Mr. Curtis said the officials ‘certainly know’ where the hiding places are.”