"Yet this priceless legacy is swiftly being lost. "Years from now, I don't know what archaeologists will find when they do excavations here," laments Salah Al-Houdalieh, director of the Archaeology Institute at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. "They are destroying a cultural heritage that belongs to every Palestinian, to every human being."" Some Westerners don't mind the bombing of Iraq and West Bank, but they sure get upset over the looting of artifacts, especially from the pre-Islamic era.