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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: E. T. who wrote (70058)4/28/2003 10:49:15 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Nobody is disputing that some of the looters knew what they were doing and went for the most valuable pieces. However, if you have seen the museum after the act, you should know that EVERYTHING is gone, except some pottery and stuff the looters probably thought had zero value.

What I am disputing, again, are your assertions that:
(1) Looters had "keys to vaults"
(2) US could not protect the museum from looting if it wanted to
... and now, the newly introduced:
(3) Museums have only copies on display and the originals are all locked up in vaults.

That last has got to be one of the strangest and least informed remarks I have ever heard on the topic of archeology.

Makes me wonder if you have ever been to any museum anywhere, let alone those in the ME on which you so readily voice opinion.

You are wrong. And have this unshakable belief that whatever people around you in the US tell you is gospel truth and little me who has visited numerous ME museums

if you are in museum and ask the curator if the Mona Lisa you are looking at is the "real thing", he/she will always tell you that it is the original on display

Are you out of your mind? No. That is not how museums are run on Planet Earth. Everything is original unless stated to be a copy. Especially when you ask a direct question, no self-respecting curator will LIE and say a copy is the original.

For your info, Mona Lisa is in the Louvre. And it is the original you see behind a two-inch thick glass.
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