[SunkenCiv]

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Jordanian officials seized these cuneiform tablets from smugglers. [Ali Jarekji/Reuters]

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[SunkenCiv]

Publication of Unprovenanced Artifacts Statement of Concern
Biblical Archaeology Review

We are archaeologists and scholars who deal with archaeological materials from the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. We wish to express our concern at a movement that has received much publicity lately that condemns the use of unprovenanced antiquities from consideration in the reconstruction of ancient history. On the contrary, a history of this region cannot be written without the evidence from unprovenanced antiquities...

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[Little Ray]

Archeologists are just peeved that they didn't get to the loot first.

[ApplegateRanch]

the publishing restrictions are forcing them to "close their eyes to important information."

Sounds similar to the big bioethics fight many years ago over whether or not to make life saving use of "tainted" knowledge gleaned from Nazi "experiments" in hypothermia; or to ignore the body of data, until it could be recreated by conducting humane, ethical research in the area, while allowing people to needlessly die.

This bears keeping an eye on it.

[SunkenCiv]

Removing relics vs. preserving history (op-ed)
Christian Science Monitor | May 17, 2006 | Randy Salzman
Posted on 05/17/2006 11:48:46 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1633768/posts

Director of Getty Is Unrattled by Claims of Italy and Greece to Antiquities
New York Times | May 15, 2006 | Hugh Eakin
Posted on 05/17/2006 11:53:13 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1633771/posts

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