Monday, June 07, 2004

Sanctioned Pack Rats

When I read something like this,

"Egypt is about to begin the painstaking five-year task of cataloguing and restoring some 90,000 pharaonic and other artifacts which have lain almost forgotten for decades since they were dug from ancient ruins."

it makes me wonder if all the digging archaeologists do is merely compulsive digging, or a chance for a shot at glory if they stumble upon something big.

Dig it up, annotate a note, stuff the artifact in a box and forget about for years and years.  Maybe more could be learned if there was a private market for these relics?

“Egypt to Catalog Artifacts in Neglected Basement."

Via Yahoo News.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/07 at 04:26 AM
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