[meteorite-list] Legality of Libyan Desert Glass Artifacts Discussion Continued

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jun 11 20:11:52 2004
Message-ID: <20040612001150.92207.qmail_at_web12308.mail.yahoo.com>

Keith, you are deliberatly misrepresenting what you
wrote to that archaelogists and then deliberately
misrepresenting what you are reporting back to this
list. You are asking the archaelogists if artifacts
made from LDG is illegal (Of course it is) and then
you show him this auction by Mark bostick that has
nothing to do with artifacts.
http://listserv.tamu.edu/cgi/wa?A2=ind0406&L=arch-l&F=&S=&P=4205
Can you explain what this auction has to do with
artifacts?
By asking the obvious about exporting an artifact and
getting the obvious response from an archaelogist you
then say that the archaelogists told you this
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Despite what you have stated, he and other
professional archaeologists have made it very clear,
contrary to you have claimed, me that even picking
an LDG flake up off the shifting sandy desert floor
and transporting it / exporting it without permission
from either Egypt or Libya is unethical and illegal
behavior.
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The archaelogists never told you this (Go reread that
posting that the guy made to you in response). this is
your response that you just dreamed up in the middle
of the night that has nothing to do with what the guy
told you.
The fact that LDG is used to make an artifact 3000
years ago or some other material such as desert sand
or granite or gold makes no difference. He told you
exporting an arifact is illegal. Exporting gold is not
illegal from egypt. Its only illegal if somebody 3000
years ago molded it into something.
You are taking the innocent response of an
archaelogist giving you honest opinions and then
twisting it around to try and stop a trade in LDG that
had nothing to do with what you asked the guy. What
you are doing is giving archaelogists a bad name and
misquoting the archaelogists who tried to help you out
to a point that could well be illegal.
Get your facts strait before you post crap and eronous
information with no basis of supporting it. It may or
may not be legal to export this stuff but you have not
made any effort to determine if it is legal. Go to the
ministry of mines in Egypt (It has nothing to do with
the Egyptian antiquities department so why ask them.
An archaelogist wouldent know if some mineral is legal
to export - ask a geologists instead). Get some
relevent facts and then get back to us with a report.
Sincerely
DEAN



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