Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
Because they wouldn’t fit on the boat back to Britain.
Don’t bring this up with British people. They have brainrot from decades and decades of conservative propaganda, even if they are otherwise left-leaning, and will often result in the stupidest arguments just because they haven’t bothered to spend 5 minutes to think about them.
I’m British, visited an anthropology museum last week and left feeling angry. Give it all back.
Give them back their shit you imperialist swine
…“swine”?
I’m conflicted with this one.
If we return it to a country of origin that has no protections for priceless artefacts, we lose an irreplaceable part of our heritage as humans if the piece is lost/sold/stolen or worse destroyed. Granted it may be that country’s right to decide what it does with its history, but its unfair to the rest of us when we lose our shared history because of incompetence.
Like the Buddha statues that were destroyed by the Taliban,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
As impractical as it would have been, I would much have preferred they were excavated and shipped to a safe museum or city somewhere, than being destroyed by ideological bigots. We lost an important piece of history, architecture and craftsmanship that day.
I think there is the rare case where you could be right but it’s also important to note that the UK has been using that excuse to avoid returning artifacts to Greece (where they would obviously not be in danger).
And who is more likely to value historical artefacts than the culture they originated from? Truth is, the British have frequently lost or damaged priceless artefacts, and thousands of them are locked away in vaults where no one can enjoy them. How is that better than simply giving them back?
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A lot of the old shit was just left in a field to rot. Someone came along and said see all this shit over here anyone want it? No one did.
Either it got left to rot and now wouldn’t exist at all or someone saw value it in bought it off someone and put it in a museum for people to enjoy.
Now in the future it has monetary value people suddenly want it.
A lot of the old shit was just left in a field to rot. Someone came along and said see all this shit over here anyone want it? No one did.
We’re going to need some legitimate citations to back your claim about “a lot of the old shit” being left in fields that people passed by and didn’t take for themselves.
Mummies. They were all over Egypt, just lying around in the sand. The Brits came by and saw they were everwhere, asked why nobody took care of them, received some shrugs in response, took a couple, ground them up into dust and snorted that shit, for health purposes. It’s well documented, somewhere on the internet.
You mean in their graves? Yes that’s where corpses go.
