Granted. Though there’s an argument on what preserving the antiquities is for in the first place. If we think there is a value provided to visitors seeing them

Granted. Though there’s an argument on what preserving the antiquities is for in the first place. If we think there is a value provided to visitors seeing them in person, then preserving them far away deprives the Iraqi from these benefits making the preservation neutral at best in the short/middle term (long term? will it ever come back ?). It might feel like having your pet living abroad in a shelter, on one side it gets to live, on the other it doesn’t help you much to cope with your life.