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US returns huge haul of stolen artefacts to Italy

The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.

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BBC trying to ignore the elephant in the room with all of their stolen artefacts
- Q: Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
  A: Because they were too heavy to move to England
  
  Recycling material is old
- Italy wouldn’t want to start that conversation - the city of Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt.
  
  The house I'm living in in Germany is built on top of a Roman pottery district. I hope they don't want that one back.
- The art unit of Italy's police force found the items had been looted and sold to US museums and private collectors in the 1990s.
  Kind of different, a lot of the same.
- This seems like an excellent time to recommend an excellent podcast: Stuff The British Stole
Is there a difference between artefact and artifact? Or is it just another weird thing in the english language?
- British vs. American spelling, that's all.
Great. You've done the first world nation justice. Now do your own indigenous nations justice and return all of their stolen artifacts.
- Anything won by military action is legitimately owned. Note all of human history
  
  Are you really pro-colonialism? Wow.
- You misspelled land and culture.
  
  I doubt that will ever happen, but artifacts in museums can absolutely be given back to indigenous nations without much effort on the museum's part. They just don't want to.
The British Museum

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