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Damdy@lemmy.world 11 months agoEvery country ever has “looted artifacts”, that was literally the point of war for like 4000 years. The vast majority of the British museum’s items were legally purchased. Just like every other gallery in the world.
Would you take Mona Lisa from the Louvre? Obviously italian.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
legally purchased from whom?
some how I doubt the people that were looted see it as “legally”…
also, did I not recognize that it is not unique to the British Empire?
oh and the Mona Lisa was probably finished in France, and was purchased by the french crown after DaVinci’s death… and has remained in France more or less since. (for a time it was on Napolean’s bedroom wall; after the french revolution it moved to the Louvre where it remained.
this is compared to the Elgin collection, which were removed by Lord Elgin under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire… or the collection of human remains so vast that they don’t actually know how many they have.