03-09-2016, 09:12 AM
(03-08-2016, 04:03 PM)Ioannis Wrote: I'm sorry but as a professional archaeologist, I have no time for people buying antiquities...
This is precisely the point, as a professional archaeologist you get to handle and investigate lots of interesting material, this is not open to other people with, perhaps, as great an interest - unless they buy antiquities. What would help greatly is if many more museums had public access to their less fragile artifacts and those they hold in multiple copies. It is a basic human trait to want to handle objects.
I wrote an article on the British cavalry swords of the Napoleonic era, it would have been a much less useful text had I not been able to handle the weapons themselves.
Martin
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