Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Short Sighted Judge

A letter has been sent to the American President to stop the auctioning off of tablets found at Persepolis in the 1930's to compensate Israeli victims of a bombing in 1997.

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?id=7543&section=2

2 comments:

Geoff Carter said...

In the late 1950s Greek Cypriots (EOKA) killed British soldiers and civilians - but we missed our opportunity to flog off the Elgin marbles, which would have saved a lot of hassle in the long run.

Charles Ellwood Jones said...

The letter is here.

You can read a great deal about the issue at The Persepolis Fortification Archive Project