Come on Indy !
Come on Indy !
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What's the difference between a british archeologist and a grave robber?
The Diploma
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What is the country of origin? Please point out to me where the Aztec country is. Do you mean Mexico? Are they entitled to all the relics of the past civilizations theirs crushed? And yes, I know the idol in Indiana Jones isn't really Aztec, but the overall point stands.
With the exception of the very few cases where a country can actually trace its culture and history all the way back to when those artifacts were made, ancient culture and artifacts belong to humanity as a whole, not whatever geopolitical entity happens to control the land they're on at the time of discovery. It's not a natural resource, it's human history.
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“MY MUSEUM”
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The country of origin wouldn't appreciate it in a museum.
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Maybe it's you that belongs in a museum
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I dont think you appreciate your car so its fine if I steal it, right?
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I don't think people understand that I was speaking from the perspective of the academic adventure archeologists.
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British Museum: "what's a country of origin?"
I came here to say this, BM is the worst.
It's fun to say this, but at least BM is really able to do their main job and preserve the artifacts.
There's dozens of cases where the original sites have been looted or destroyed by the origin country's own leaders.
Storing the artifacts outside of the influence of an area's internal issues is actually really wise. The BM's real wrongdoing is not paying anything for the artifacts they've took. I argue they've done enough good to offset that a little. They're bad but not the worst.
British Museum gets a lot of hate but there are plenty of museums that's have walked off with others countries treasure. The Pergamon museum in Berlin took literal chunks of ancient cities
British museum is truly terrible, but tbh the only reason people know about it and know to tag on it is because they try to reckon with their existence. Just over the channel in France is Musée du Quai Branly, which was originally going to be called “museum of the primitive arts”, that first of all costs money (BM is free) but also does a terrible job of explaining what the items are and who stole them from whom. BM tries to contextualiza what they stole and when and from whom, Quai Branly is a straight up colonial museum (there are other worse museums in Europe)
"We shouldn't do the right thing because neither did our ancestors."
Typical Viking hippie response.
Yes, actually. It is very much in line with my values as a left wing pacifist from Scandinavia 😁
I’ll take that as a compliment?
If you're speaking of the geographic coordinate system, england IS the origin 🤷