Neil Brodie quoted on Larry Rothfield's blog ("Neil Brodie Stirs the Pot" Monday, August 19, 2013), in it he replies to this.
I believe the problems of looting caused by the antiquities trade are ultimately caused by those who do the buying in the so-called demand or destination countries, and it is there that the solution lies. Calls for site protection sound to me very much like the trade and its beneficiaries trying to shirk responsibility for the damage caused while at the same time relocating guilt and inhibiting the development of more effective demand-focused policies. They add insult to injury.Hear, hear. There is a point there about Mubarak too which maybe I'll comment on later.
