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Archaeologists are not criminals

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Christine Bauer
11 years ago

Cultural heritage must be respected and protected. We are all merely curators for the future

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Gheorghe Lazarovici
11 years ago Featured

Not only managers and the numismatists are to blame but Ministers and governments that do not provide adequate funding to protect cultural heritage.

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James
11 years ago

This is wrong!

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Peter Delev
11 years ago

St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

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Dragan Dodevski
11 years ago

Da tocno so gatancija

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eliana piccardi
11 years ago

let's warmly hope that truth will come out very soon!

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Stephen Chappell
11 years ago Featured

Blaming the scientists for the poor security surrounding archaeological materials is a terrible miscarriage of justice. You've also now lost two experts whose lives have been dedicated to revealing the amazing history of Macedonia. How was this allowed to happen? Who wanted them to be scapegoats?

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Deb Boyce
11 years ago

The evidence seems slight, at best. This warrants further investigation.

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stephanie allen
11 years ago

They are not the culprets just professionals. Police perhaps too lazy.

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Elizabeth Gebhard
11 years ago

It is a scandal that archaeologists are accused of theft froma museum with inadequate security. The criminals must be found.

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Prof. ddr. Mitja GUŠTIN
11 years ago

I give my signature to this petition, because of extremely unjust judgment for that sort of perjury in frame of heading of institution!

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Ljubinka Dzidrova, NI Archaeological museum of Macedonia, Skopje
11 years ago

The 162 stolen objects are not even a correct number, since a part of the missing objects due to negligent handling of other curators were identified and found in other depots. Throwing blame on a group of archaeologists of the top national archaeological museum, today transfarred to a brand new building and an independent institution under the same title, results in a overall accusation of each and every one of us, and the profession in general. Mistakes are being done, and crimes are committed, but was it the case in our museum? Please find those who are guilty, that is a prerogative. Throwing blame on innocent people will only result in repeating the crime by the perpetrators. And what is the guilt of commission members who signed the request for acquisition of coins for the museum, today exhibited in the museum exhibition. They are not missing.

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Romana Menalo
11 years ago Featured

This is unbelievable! The problem of inadequate depots is actually the most frequent problem that museum curators can have among others. The directors and the curators cannot do anything but write letters to the State explaining the problem and hope that nothing of this kind will ever happen.

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Nell
11 years ago

injustice cannot be tolerated

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Catalin I. Nicolae
11 years ago

"Vasile Parvan" Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest, Romania.

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Irena Nasteva Kolistrkoska
11 years ago

Arheoloski muzej na Makedonija-Skopje

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Fanica Veljanovska
11 years ago

Arheoloski muzej na Makedonija-Skopje

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Dr. Fridolin Reutti
11 years ago

Horrible to imagine this situation! And to believe, that the excavator would steel later his own findings! And why is not possible to find the real criminals? And where ae the objects? In USA, Switzerland, ...?

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Philip Kenrick
11 years ago Featured

It seems implausible in the extreme that the archaeologists who discovered these objects and are devoted to their study should have been deliberately negligent in arranging for their safe-keeping.

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Goran Sanev
11 years ago

Archaeological Museum of Macedonia - Skopje