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ahasverus
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The reason for that is that in the beginning of the 90's EU made the Malta-tractate that says that members has to protect their cultural inheritage including unearthed ones, but sadly the eastern european countries has bulldozed away many remains before they became a member.
We can only hope the EU will force them to ratify this tractate.
In Denmark it work like this; If one want to build something they can choose to have it checked by the local museum on the contractors bill. If one choose not to do that, they still have to report if anything gets unearthed and we can stop the construction for up to a year still on the contractors bill.
The "we" is good enough roughly. I'm on my way to become a archeologist
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Originally posted by Spiffor
Actually, over here (in France at least) , whenever we have to dig something for a new building, an archeological team comes first to see if there is buried historical material to salvage. |
here too. particularly during the contruction of the metro in athens.... madness.... countless relics discovered. countless times the works stopping. every one who wants to build a house dreads what will happen if he digs... because the archeologists have the power to make him stop and declare the property under protection if something is found. and if it is something removable then maybe ok. if not....
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:20
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Originally posted by DAVOUT
It is obvious that a 220 years old nation has not yet met the concept of history. |
It's not the lack of age that's a problem. After all, some parts of the U.S. have been settled by Europeans for oever 500 years. We've got history up the yin-yang, and some of it is still causing problems for us today (The Mexican-American War, the Civil War, Slavery, the Great Awakening, the Indian Wars, etc). The problem is our corporate-marketing-tv culture, which is exceedingly anti-intellectual, and thus anti historical.
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DerSchwarzfalke
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Most of the useful archaeology in America has very little to do with the European settlement and much more to do with the indigenous folks and their civilizations here. Way to ignore 10,000 years of settled life in North America, chegitz.
To the point of the article, the only "blame" that can be assigned is if the US is not working effectively with Iraq to recover these artefacts. The looting of the museums was something that was clearly in the works in the months leading up to the US invasion, because whoever was planning it knew there would be a power vacuum of at least a day in which they could take everything they wanted.
As for Babylon, something tells me what the US tanks were destroying by basing themselves there was the Saddam Hussain reconstruction. Much of Babylon's remaining artefacts and edifices were undermined when Hussain in a fit of vainglory rebuilt the city "as it would have been in Nebuchadnezzar's time" and had it rededicated to himself. Shame, really.
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16-05-2005 18:28
. Should be graduating next year harhar... 
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