BBC:
A 12th Century key to Islam’s holiest shrine has sold at auction in London for $18.1m (£9.2m). Somehow, a private person purchasing and owning this kind of artifact feels ... wrong. Like someone buying a key to the latch of the Ark of the Covenant. Or selling stones from the great kiva at Chaco. Some things just should not be in private hands, and remain above valuation in mere dollars. Merchant/capitalist mindset, valuing everything through currency, alloys our sense of wonder.
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