[chaosagent]

So what's the over and under on how long they'll last over there before they're desecrated or destroyed?

I'll take 6 months +- 1 month.

[urtax$@work]

Decision still pending

Katsaros said the church will work with the Cypriot Department of Antiquities to place the frescoes "in a proper environment in the free part of Cyprus" with the goal of eventually returning them to the original chapel "in their holy sacred land on the day of its liberation."

so i guess there is an eventual invasion by Cyprus to recapture lands

The archbishopric's building complex in Nicosia includes a Byzantine Museum that Helfenstein said draws tourists and includes a number of recovered artworks that had been looted from the northern, occupied part of Cyprus.

so i guess this is the free part of Cyprus...

However, Katsaros said no decision about the frescoes' placement has been made beyond pledges from the church and the Cyprus government to "cooperate and do their best in order to show the magnitude of those treasures."

i've heard that phrase "do their best" to mean something other than .....best