[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?

[mairdie]

The majority of what they find expands knowledge rather than excites with their beauty. Pot shards are so common. It's rare that they dig up the really beautiful pieces. The roundel below is in the Oriental Institute collection but they let the docents buy copies in solid gold rather than the cheap copies sold in the Suq.