British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2y
Sooooo....
What's the statue of limitations before the most recent thieves are the legal owners?
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 2y
Plot twist: the greeks and italians stole the artifacts back.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
There was an episode of Archer about this same thing...
Peaty@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y
Isn't that just the stuff in the museum?
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y
"We found them in your display cases." -The public and experts
csolisr@communities.azkware.net · 15 pts · 2y
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
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 2y
Ok but they're artifacts from the Greek and Roman empires, which means they might be stolen stolen stolen goods...
vis4valentine@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Me encanta lol
Dra@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 2y
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.
shermozle@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 2y
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.
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y
So . . . we need to alert the rest of the world how to get their stuff back from the British Museum. Got it.
sik0fewl@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
Did you check in the back?
lntl@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
lol mad humor here
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 2y
Have they considered marching an army into weaker countries and just taking new artifacts?
winterayars@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
It's the British Museum so you know they have.