"In the meantime the antiquities are in much better hands."
you'll really like this one, then:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1633768/posts
from:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0517/p09s02-coop.html
Have seen the Elgin Marbles in London. If it'd been up to the Turks they'd have crushed them for use as road ballast.