>Kinnock, 79, said in an email that the government, and much of the British public, had the tendency “to cling to (or even yearn for) a real or imagined past.”
New York Times article on the UK = ignore. They’ve had a weird anti-UK obsession going on for the past 5 years.
go, go, go
Let’s return as many artifacts as possible, to gain space & money for promoting more local artifacts.
“We haven’t stopped looking at it.”
If they want it back, they always have the option to assemble a heist crew with people with specific expertise to help steal the stolen artifacts back. Then we can watch a Hollywood movie about it a few years later…win win.
Meanwhile Germany has an entire Greek temple and the Gate of Babylon in a museum.
Our luck is that the temple is from Asia Minor so the modern Greeks can’t claim it and the Turks are bound by the agreements between the Otomans and German Empire.
Iraq has more serious problems (ISIS would’ve probably destroyed them, if they had the chance). They would have a hard time to prove that the artifacts are save in the current political climate.
I sometimes fantasize being a Robin Hood-esque master thief stealing all the robbed cultural treasures from the UK and bringing them back to their rightful homes.
Imagine the guards of the Parthenon waking up and in front of the ancient building they find two very large, wrapped Christmas presents containing the robbed statues.
I would be hunted by the MI6 and Interpol, but they would never catch me.
I always kinda have to chuckle when I think of it.
Hoarding disorder at its finest.
They can buy it back. Most Denmark has from outside of Europe were bought by private collectors and eventually donated.
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It’s all they’ve got.
>Kinnock, 79, said in an email that the government, and much of the British public, had the tendency “to cling to (or even yearn for) a real or imagined past.”
Uph, Kinnock, you’re savage.
Europe returning artefacts, *pero no mucho.* There cases of stolen artefacts very recently. This small [dino](https://www.science.org/content/article/chicken-size-dino-furlike-mane-stirs-ethics-debate) fossil was stolen from Brazil and German museum is still [refusing](https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2021/09/german-museum-refuses-to-return-dinosaur-fossil-taken-irregularly-from-brazil.shtml) to return it.
New York Times article on the UK = ignore. They’ve had a weird anti-UK obsession going on for the past 5 years.
go, go, go
Let’s return as many artifacts as possible, to gain space & money for promoting more local artifacts.
“We haven’t stopped looking at it.”
If they want it back, they always have the option to assemble a heist crew with people with specific expertise to help steal the stolen artifacts back. Then we can watch a Hollywood movie about it a few years later…win win.
Meanwhile Germany has an entire Greek temple and the Gate of Babylon in a museum.
Our luck is that the temple is from Asia Minor so the modern Greeks can’t claim it and the Turks are bound by the agreements between the Otomans and German Empire.
Iraq has more serious problems (ISIS would’ve probably destroyed them, if they had the chance). They would have a hard time to prove that the artifacts are save in the current political climate.
I sometimes fantasize being a Robin Hood-esque master thief stealing all the robbed cultural treasures from the UK and bringing them back to their rightful homes.
Imagine the guards of the Parthenon waking up and in front of the ancient building they find two very large, wrapped Christmas presents containing the robbed statues.
I would be hunted by the MI6 and Interpol, but they would never catch me.
I always kinda have to chuckle when I think of it.
Hoarding disorder at its finest.
They can buy it back. Most Denmark has from outside of Europe were bought by private collectors and eventually donated.
The NY times hates the UK so much.
Right of conquest.