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Perhaps the better question is why "restore" (to whatever period) at all? What's to be learned about how our ancestors--if indeed these stone pushers WERE in any sense our ancestors--lived, or thought; or about how our own culture developed and why by rerecting the stones? The more I look at these old things, the more I doubt their informative value.

It's probably MORE informative--about our culture--to have pushed in our faces just how ignorantly destructive our known, demonstrable cultural ancestors were. How about some little signs posted over all the buried ones: "Some ignorant clods either allowed this stone to fall down or pushed it over and now no one wants to pay to put it back up"?

Perhaps the better question is why "restore" (to whatever period) at all? What's to be learned about how our ancestors... lived, or thought...?" Some ignorant clods either allowed this... to fall down or pushed it over and now no one wants to pay to put it back up"?
Perhaps you would also like to apply that philosophy to Coventry Cathedral, Dresden, the Globe Theatre, the Sutton Hoo helmet, Pompeii, the Mayan pyramids... perhaps even the Twin Towers?