[Buddha-l] Fwd: 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find

[jkirk]

If Prof Cohen thinks that not posting the caves' "address" will prevent
pillage, he'd better think again. He heard about the caves from a herder.
The same guy probably has told others about it, and now the scrum will be
on to find the caves and pillage them. Members of his team will talk too.
Antiquities explorers always do. 
Only if Nepal posted incorruptible cops there (yes, I know, an oxymoron)
will these remains stand a chance of remaining, as found. It is an
excruciating absence of common-sense that Cohen announced this find to the
world at a time when protection of these antiquities wasn't even arranged.
Joanna
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An article on the BBC website about art finds in a cave in Nepal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6624117.stm

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Richard
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