Louvre Sets Up Shelter For Art And Antiquities Caught In War Zones’ Crossfire – But Ends Up In Crossfire Itself

In light of catastrophes ranging from the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas to ISIS’s trafficking in looted antiquities, the French government has offered a conservation facility it’s building in northern France as a haven for artifacts recovered from the battle-scarred Middle East. Yet some curators and archaeologists are fighting the plan, saying that it would stir up an entirely different hornets’ nest of problems.