Does Aleppo prove that we westerners should keep the world’s antiquities?

Robert Fisk ' Does Aleppo prove that we westerners should keep the world’s antiquities?' Independent Thursday 1 December 2016

If the Aleppo room was still in Aleppo, and not a museum in Berlin, it might well have been destroyed, burned in the indulgence of fire which consumed much of the old city [...] Painted on the wall panels are Jesus as a child, the Last Supper, Salome dancing before Herod and Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac – a scene familiar to Muslims and Jews as well as Christians – and there are five illustrations of the Virgin Mary. But there are Islamic motifs as well as wrestlers and dragons and a mythical Persian bird, tulips and hyacinths and the animals of the Creation. Of course, if the Aleppo room was still in Aleppo, it might well have been destroyed,

The Aleppo Room