Who ought to own ancient artefacts: the countries in which they are found or the countries that find - and can look after - them? The restorer (and convicted smuggler) JONATHAN TOKELEY argues against the widely accepted view that past acquisitions, like the Elgin Marbles, should be returned, claiming that far from solving the problem, such political correctness is hastening the destruction of ancient treasures. Rescuing the Past: The Cultural Heritage Crusade is published by Imprint Academic.
I realise this might not come within the remit of this here site, but thought some of you might be interested in this. This bloke was interviewed on Start The Week today. The full (ie uneditted morning edition) should be available to 'listen again' and download as a Podcast here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek.shtml
at some point in the next day.
I found it quite interesting in much the same way Norman Tebbit fascinates me. Just thought sdome of you lot might be interested. I'd be interested to see what you thought. He made a point that pre-mohamaddian(?) stuff is reagarded as [insert word he used several times to show he knew what he was talking about], which I assume is some sort of un-godly/clean and should be destroyed. As soon as they have monetarty value, they become a resource provided by god.
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