[PzGr43]

Looting and tomb-raiding is an ancient trade and there is nothing newsworthy in this man's statement. Preservation of ancient buildings and similar is a modern concept exported to the Orient dating from perhaps 1860. For example, the Coliseum was being quarried by wealthy 19thC Romans who thought it fashionable to front their houses with the marble blocks. There has always been a huge trade in flogging looted artifacts to Grand Tourists.

If we introduced the death penalty for all involved in the trade from start to finish then this would help to stem it while we thought of a more more appropriate punishment.

[Docbarleypop]

even worse, in an ancient rome history class we were told that about 50% of the marble was burnt to make lime, also a good portion of it found its way into St Peter's Cathedral