[mairdie]

I'm thinking this is more progressive snowflakes wanting to take back history from those who preserved it and return it to countries where it has a good chance of being eventually destroyed. I'd say give them back some good photographs or 3D images.

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Sacajaweau]

Not for nothing....but I’m sure they all lift stuff...Likely a huge Black Market.

[Da Coyote]

This woman belongs in the senate.
A crook among crooks.

[marktwain]

Everything she did was legal when she did it. The treaty was not signed until 1989, in Australia.

[Little Ray]

Whatever.
That stuff was definitely safer with her than with the Egyptians.

[Moonmad27]

I agree. Even after seeing what has happened to antiquities in the Arab world, they want to return things. The Elgin Marbles being one of their main gripes — should they have left them in Athens to deteriorate in a couple hundred years of city smog?

[Daffynition]

Remember the Ottoman Turks and the Earl of Elgin?

[bgill]

The law wasn’t in effect until after she pocketed the artifacts.

Doesn’t everyone have mummy wrappings laid out on their coffee table? It makes for a great conversation starter.

[DesertRhino]

who cares? those animals have looted museums and destroyed antiquities across the middle East. she’s a better custodian.

[Slyfox]

If Ms. Hanna had siddled up nicely to the 95 year-old and talked to her sweetly she probably would have gotten her to donate all or most of her stuff to a museum somewhere.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Better Indiana Joan than ISIS. I'd tell that "prominent" archaeology lady to pound sand. Plenty of that in the Middle East.
 

[Fresh Wind]

'It is not acceptable that Mrs. Howard behaved as a pirate and appropriated from the different archaeological sites,' the letter reads.

Correct. It is only acceptable when governments or government sponsored groups behave as pirates and appropriate artifacts from the different archaeological sites. /s

[American in Israel]

She spent a lifetime working in the desert and has this paltry collection to show for it. Let the government puke spend ten years shoveling rock in the heat, oh wait. That form of hard labor is cruel and unusual punishment, unfit for murderers.

How about you offer to buy the precious artifacts?

Let me guess, suddenly not so precious?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Until the Sunnis and Shiites kiss and make up, the more stuff that is hauled out of the craphole that is the Middle East and tucked away safely in Western museums the better.

[Ezekiel]

I she planning to be buried with these objects? This photo has a certain 'circle of life' aura to it. No worries. Somebody'll dig her up in 4000 years.

[SteveH]

I did field work in Florida.

Any field work IMHO is a privilege.

And living in Florida for a summer was great too.