Archeological pillage in Asia

Time has an article on the looting of artifacts in Asia that's worth reading. An excerpt:

The dramatic ransacking of Baghdad's national museum during the Iraq war may have grabbed headlines earlier this year, but the consistent, widespread and largely unremarked looting of Asia is far more damaging. "There is a feeling that Asia is filled with endless supplies of cultural relics," says He Shuzhong, head of Cultural Heritage Watch, a nongovernmental cultural-preservation group in Beijing. "But if the looting continues at this pace, we'll soon have nothing left to remind us of our glorious past. Baghdad was just a few weeks of destruction. Our heritage is experiencing a major blow every week, every month, every year."

Posted by David on October 21, 2003 9:43 PM