• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    4410 months ago

    The museum has now said most are Greek and Roman gems and jewellery, and shared pictures of similar items.

    Sooooo…

    Help, someone stole a tiny fraction of the shit we stole!

    What’s the statue of limitations before the most recent thieves are the legal owners?

  • @Peaty
    link
    English
    2410 months ago

    Isn’t that just the stuff in the museum?

    • ivanafterall
      link
      fedilink
      1710 months ago

      “We found them in your display cases.” -The public and experts

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1410 months ago

    These failed state countries can’t be trusted to look after priceless artifacts. I propose they be moved to responsible countries like Nigeria and Greece for safekeeping.

  • Carlos Solís
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1410 months ago

    In my native Latin America we have this saying, “ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de perdón” (“a thief that steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness”) and… yeah guess it may apply here

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Ok but they’re artifacts from the Greek and Roman empires, which means they might be stolen stolen stolen goods…

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -410 months ago

      Ever heard of “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?”

      Latin America as a whole has absolutely zero advice to offer the rest of the world regarding domestic moral principles, I’m afraid.

  • @Trigger2_2000
    link
    English
    1410 months ago

    So . . . we need to alert the rest of the world how to get their stuff back from the British Museum. Got it.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    510 months ago

    Have they considered marching an army into weaker countries and just taking new artifacts?

    • @winterayars
      link
      English
      310 months ago

      It’s the British Museum so you know they have.