| It would be hard to conjure up a less glamorous place to hide such valuable artefacts. The walls were dark and drab, there were pipes running along the ceiling and boxes stacked along the corridors. We entered a room with metal shelves lining concrete walls. The ancient objects they contained were labelled by country. There were more than two dozen statues on the floor, mostly made of stone and bronze, often religious artefacts, hundreds, perhaps, thousands of years old. Some were strung with labels reading “CHARGED” - which meant someone had been indicted. When I walked around that room it felt like travelling through time. I could see and feel culture and history, and what these items would mean to the people they were taken from. |
