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I am aware this kind of lootery has been on also in Egypt and in Qumran. What can we do? The answers we are waiting for from old stones and ancient sites are valuable, but the world does not run on ancient knowledge, but on the hunt for US$!
We can hardly trust the military to protect old knowledge bases. Even us (the "civilised") have, in the name of science, robbed many sites of their contents, and robbed the countries it belonged to; although that content would have been probably lost if we had not done so…
Sir James Frazer went a long way to "prove" that a dictatorship was better for the human knowledge, since then an idle elite could intersts itself to such strange findings… I am not sure absolute power is any good to culture, although old Europe seems to be a choice example. But to the price of how many war casualties?
Strange that people at large seem to prefer war to curiosity…
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road