They are dusty old things buried in the ground by people who never intended that they be dug up out of the ground to be grokked at by people who give them as much attention and consideration as they would a colourful comic book.
The value of ancient artifacts varies according to who you are and how much money you have and who you want to impress by the ownership of such things.
Is there any value in what they teach us about how the ancients lived? Is there any real value? any lesson we could learn from them about how we should live today?
I'm interested in these things too, but i cannot escape the fact that my interest is from a position of page-turning comic book thumbing.
To some of the people in whose lands these objects lie, they are the very means to life itself when they are sold off for an income which they could not hope to otherwise earn.
It is interesting to see these items, but how much importance do they really have even though it might cost much money to buy them?
