Comment on British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.

totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Higgs is suspected to have taken uncategorized items and selling them on the e-commerce website eBay. One item worth $64,000 was offered for online auction for as little as $51 and listings for artifacts from the museum’s collection appeared online as early as 2016, according to a report in the Telegraph.

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  • totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The stealing I mean was the British Museum’s acquisition of the collection, but this too.

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    • ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With all my respects if you repatriate them here in Mexico they will end up in some gangsters villa. The ministry of culture is weaker than their coked up limp dicks.

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      • totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh well that’s a drag :(

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• DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol that was my first thought when I read this too. Nonetheless, there’s zero chance of any of the historical artifacts being repatriated to their countries of origin now. It’s a big loss.

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