I for one wish the historic paper artifacts of Egypt that were recently lost in a museum fire in Cairo had been housed in Britain, or in the Smithsonian, or almost anywhere but under a military regime in a country in chaos. Such artifacts belong to the people of the world, not just the present-day Egyptians. The Elgin artifacts and numerous other "looted" and priceless relics of our human culture are far more important than the recent claims of national pride by various governments, and in my mind transcend the value of such shaky and temporary entities. And despite a legacy of democracy, almost no government is shakier than that of Greece.