From: Judy Folkenberg 



Glenn Meadows wrote:

> >>I would assume that a "vault" in regards to the
value of these antiquities
> would be more substantial than something that could be opened with a
> crowbar.  If not, then that's foolish.

Do you know how much security can cost to protect valuable objects?  You
don't even want to know, nor do you want to know how many valuable objects
and books in even US institutions are kept in unsafe conditions.

Judy

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>
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> Glenn M.
>
> "Judy Folkenberg"  wrote in message
> news:3E9B0A12.B01032F4{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
> >
> >
> > Glenn Meadows wrote:
> >
> > > >>>Still doesn't mean that the bulk of the stuff in
the vaults were not
> remove
> > >
> > > long ago.  How could the looters open the vaults?  With an invading
> force
> > > coming into Baghdad, why didn't the curators move all the displayed
> > > artifacts into the vaults?  Seems there's some lack of
foresight on the
> part
> > > of the Iraqi curators as well.  I mean, it's not as if they
didn't know
> that
> > > the "Infidels" weren't coming. --
> >
> > The curators had prepared for the museum pieces to be bombed not looted.
> And
> > crowbars work very well.  On a smaller scale, let me tell how we protect
> our
> > rare books.  We're prepared for fire in the incunabula room (oxygen is
> > immediately removed) prepared for flood, and as I stated earlier even
> prepared
> > for a bomb.  We are not prepared for looters.  Looters can do what fire
> and
> > water cannot do.
> >
> > Judy
> >

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