The national monuments order is the first of two executive orders on energy and the environment that Trump is set to sign this week.
But far from objecting to the proposed "new" tunnel at the time, those Druid representatives present, including myself, fully endorsed the idea of the tunnel, provided it did not run closer than 660 yards to the site of the monument, in order to obviate vibration damage risk in the substrata.
Lehner's work, on the other hand, has recently focussed on trying to recover the lost social context of the monuments in order to show people that these are "human monuments," created by the collective will of an urban society, and not by extraterrestrials or a lost civilization.
"It is as if they refuse to remain in books and on monuments in order to be part of the current political debate," as the daily La Nación recently put it.
The diverse folk goddesses of the soldiers like Matrikas were acknowledged by the Gupta rulers and their images were carved on royal monuments in order to strengthen the loyalty and adherence of the armed forces.
In 1525, the year Dürer's book came out and the year inscribed on his monument, the social order of the German countryside was turned upside down by rebellion.
In the following century, when Spain's Catholic rulers took to destroying Muslim and Jewish places of worship, the Hapsburg emperor Charles V is said to have been so captivated by the beauty of the Córdoba monument that he ordered its preservation.
The president is empowered to create new national monuments by executive order, and such designations have been shown to stimulate local economies and bring increased job growth.
Similar interests drove the creation of several monuments subject to Trump's order, including Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Canyon of the Ancients National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument.
Trump could attempt to reduce the monument through an executive order, but he could also appeal to Congress to vote to change Bears Ears' status, which Zinke has suggested they may do.
