A lot of recent articles have contained at least one quote from someone involved with the dig that’s discussed in them, to the effect that one goal is to bring in the tourists. Turkey has a *lot* of sites that could do that, y’know, assuming people are willing to risk getting murdered by Islamic terrorists. And of course for every success story...
“King’s” villas cause outrage [Caria, in modern Turkey]
Voices Newspaper | Saturday, May 17, 2008 | editor
Posted on 05/17/2008 11:11:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017581/posts
Beats the heck out of the Taliban and the Bactrian giant Buddhas.