Week Four: Response to Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans

If I was an archaeologist in an earlier era, before international laws about digs, and I discovered a rare and important site that was in the area of my expertise and life-long study, I would feel very possessive about it.  I would want total control over the dig.  I would feel it was mine and I would reveal my discoveries to the world only when I was ready.  I would hope to find my own archeology "Holy Grail" such as the ancient Palace of Crete.

Even though these two men's actions are controversial, I believe what they did was perfectly understandable.