[larrytown]

Scientific dating shows that the damp, never-looted space was in use for more than two centuries through 250 A.D.

Items preserved for over 2,000 years - looted by 'scientists' and soon to be lost to poorly managed museums, theft, and environmental ravages that they will now be subjected to. You won't see any talk to putting them back in situ when they're done studying them.

The end result is the same.

[GingisK]

You won't see any talk to putting them back in situ when they're done studying them.

I think that would be a very useless thing to do. It is more culturally important to allow people to look at their history in museums. After all, we aren't talking human remains.