Well, over here the problem's an odd one. Every antiquity is legally protected once identified. Until the Minister says it isn't ...

You may have heard that there's a big problem here with the amount of info that's being collected and not published. 20,000 archaeological licenses are given each year due to development. There simply isn't the time to publish the data and finds.

Worse still - publishing doesn't earn money. Digging does! Most of the digs are undertaken by private companies who are not interested in publishing their finds, because there's no money in it.

It should be law (or at least part of the contract) that findings must be published within 6 months of any digs, especially ones funded by the gov't for roads etc.

The National Museum has run out of storage space!