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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 3983794, member: 91240&quot;]One of my mentor&#039;s spent a lot of time in the 1980s working in Middle Eastern countries doing numismatic research. According to him, most coin collections are neglected, and officials are actively hostile to efforts to catalogue them, and would purposefully scramble their collections after they were catalogued. It is indeed a matter of job security, since they have the opportunity to receive funding for doing that task, and then drag it out for as long as possible. Even when catalogued, they are rarely published; good luck finding any information about archaeological holdings for most Turkish or Tunisian institutions. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not me saying the archaeological community is bad (we should encourage mutual respect and support; there are bad people in all fields), but that&#039;s the reality he saw. That&#039;s to say nothing about the distastefulness of saying the Turkish state is the rightful &#039;protector&#039; of Armenian cultural property, which this would entail...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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