Archaeologists Should Be Allowed To Collect Ancient Artifacts

In 1906, the Metropolitan Museum of Art excavated 36,000 objects from its Egyptian collection over to Egypt over the next 30 years to study and to show their people ancient Egyptian artifacts. Ancient artifacts should be used to show a country’s past history, opponents may say otherwise. Opponents of collecting ancient artifacts may say it might be disrespectful to collect artifacts that are blessed, but then it shouldn’t be ignored, because then that would be more disrespectful than it originally was. Archaeologists should be allowed to collect every piece of ancient artifacts in the world to deepen our understanding of all the cultures there ever were, this may help diversify the local economy and contribute to the preservation of the community’s heritage, the U.S. Congress even donates to the Historic Preservation fund
Congress donates to the Historic Preservation fund because it is important to learn about our past history. Having artifacts can deepen our understanding of other cultures, and when made into an attraction the community gets impacted economically and culturally. Opponents to archaeology digging bring up how it might not be worth all the trouble, or that we might get disrespectful with some items, but if this is not worth it, the US Congress says otherwise, donating 37 million dollars every year to the Historic Preservation Fund to help out on research cost. This argument matters because in many countries, people are starting to destroy artifacts that could have a lot of history, and we need to stop them if we want to learn about other country’s past history. Stopping them could bring us many benefits to America, some artifacts might give us ideas for future