We now have a fairly full account of the efforts made by American archaeologists, professors, and curators to safeguard the "heritage" sites and museums of Iraq. They wrote a lot of letters and e-mails. They placed some op-eds. A group visited Washington, and met with low-level officials at the Pentagon. Their best-known member, McGuire ("Mac") …

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