'Valuable Artifacts'?

Those obsessive archeologists that insist on guarding their own access to ancient artifacts and keeping them out of the hands of collectors and avocational students of the past should consider just how 'valuable' they actually were in the past. This 3rd century papyrus ( P.Oxy. 67.4633 ), containing a kind of ancient commentary to Homer's Iliad, was last used as toilet paper. The sheet, once a beautiful scroll, preserves 2 columns of text written in a nice hand. Discovered among the trash mounds at the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus