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To: LindyBill who wrote (98964)	5/24/2003 3:12:56 AM
From: Doc Bones	Read Replies (2) of 281500

More importantly, is there nothing the media won't stoop to? So things really are going great, like Wolfie says, and the media are making up alarming stories from the comfort of their Baghdad hotel? shards of old art and sun-dried bricks. Here's the passage where that comes from: Material from Iraq, which archaeologists said was fairly limited before the 1991 war, grew so prevalent that cuneiform tablets are even now regularly advertised on e-bay, and can sell for less than $100. Beyond the loss of potentially priceless artifacts, archaeologists say, looting such as that underway in Isan Bakhriat all but destroys the ability of researchers to assemble a mosaic of meaning from the shards of old art and sun-dried bricks. Where archaeological teams spend years and even decades cataloging sites, excavating with small knives and brushes, the looters have been overturning tons of dirt daily. It does seem the entrepreneurial spirit has been unleashed - are we seeing the triumph of the market place over the slow-moving academic? ;-( Doc

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