From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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.

--
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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