[roshin]

After several years, Iraqi Hezbollah recently released their Princeton researcher hostage (granted, she is a dual Israeli citizen). Maybe that will encourage more archeologists to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Tsurkov

[eth0up]

Thanks for the info and please pardon my previous ignorance of it. I'm grateful for her release.

[roshin]

no worries. There's a whole lot of news happening. No need to be up to date with everything.

[breppp]

Lovely place to be kidnapped