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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 13563110, member: 26302&quot;]Well said. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was going ro quote the exact same passage. Exactly how [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] sir is it &quot;obvious it is from illegal digging or appropriation&quot;? Prove to me it was not a farmer plowing his field finding a broken pot with it inside? Prove to me it is not a poor family having a blessing from heaven of an asset that will make their life just a little easier for a period of time. Instead, you are concluding it MUST be proof of someone destroying a historically important dig or stealing from a museum? See how your logic is a vast overreach? Again, I agree with Elgin marbles, etc, but this further argument is degrading your earlier points.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another aspect of this is the hard fact source countries have done a fairly poor job actually preserving these items. Look at the Buddhist sculptures in Afghanistan, whole ancient cities in Syria, the Great Wall in China. Arguing that MORE of the world&#039;s cultural heritage should be returned is simply ignoring these hard facts. How many important items have been destroyed at the BM or the Smithsonian? I would guess far fewer than in Cairo, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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