A set of 54 aluminium-cast playing cards that are based on a deck of cards created by the US Department of Defense as a belated attempt to help its soldiers identify and preserve archaeological sites during the 2003 Iraq invasion. Artefacts from Mesopotamia, and modern-day Greater Kurdistan, now on display in London or Paris or still missing after the US military invasion of Iraq are re-collected and expanded upon in direct opposition to the illegal excavations and looting of archaeological finds. The work questions the inconsistency and contradictions of what was deemed worthy of preservation by Western colonial perspectives and offers a counter-narrative that is self-empowering and self-positioning.