British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
The museum gives more details of 2,000 artefacts from its collection that are missing or stolen.
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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?
42 0 ReplyPlot twist: the greeks and italians stole the artifacts back.
23 0 ReplyThere was an episode of Archer about this same thing...
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Isn't that just the stuff in the museum?
17 0 Reply"We found them in your display cases." -The public and experts
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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.
14 0 ReplySo . . . we need to alert the rest of the world how to get their stuff back from the British Museum. Got it.
13 0 ReplyIn 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
12 0 ReplyOk but they're artifacts from the Greek and Roman empires, which means they might be stolen stolen stolen goods...
3 0 ReplyEver 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.
2 0 ReplyMe encanta lol
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Did you check in the back?
10 0 Replylol mad humor here
8 0 ReplyHave they considered marching an army into weaker countries and just taking new artifacts?
5 0 ReplyIt's the British Museum so you know they have.
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