Also we do know only 27 or 38 or thereabouts of the museum's catalogued items are missing
No we don't, really.
You had said that BEFORE this news surfaced, that THOUSANDS were recovered. Therefore, that number is completely false.
I don't know what passed for a cataloguing system in that museum, or what happened to it during the war & looting. Neither do you. All we know is that the initial estimation of 27-38 or whatever articles missing was completely false, as evidenced by the recovery of THOUSANDS of articles.
We don't know, either, that these were the ONLY articles looted. It would in fact be rather naive to think there was only one group of looters and that they would keep all they had stolen in one place to be found.
I don't know if you saw footage of the museum after the looting, and saw the tears of the museum personnel, describing the looting, showing the completely empty galleries and destroyed artifacts in pieces on the floor. I have. That was why I had told you that it was impossible that only thirty-something archeological treasures had been looted, as you were claiming at the time.
Now that your initial claim is proven wrong, you seem to be saying, "OK then it was not 38 then, but now that we found thousands of articles, it is 38 now". And the reason? "They must have kept a catalogue". Wonderful.
It's despicable. I can't understand why you cannot accept that a museum has been looted and many MANY treasures are lost... |
