"To destroy something that's such an important historic artifact is destroying a key part of American culture."
The movement has been helped by an expansion in views about what historic artifacts should be protected.
But these too were valued more for their strangeness than as historic artifacts.
The area has a unique concentration of historic and prehistoric artifacts.
These symbols are found in many historic artifacts from around the area.
Several historic artifacts from the church's 200-year history are on display in the vestibule.
Isn't there some value in keeping such materials as historic artifacts?
Only the set of most important historic artifacts, which had to be presented at place, was given as limiting factor.
The more than 60,000 objects in the museum's collection include cultural and historic artifacts.
But of course today any such invasion would be by missiles, so the Wall had become a historic artifact.