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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts

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British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts

www.bbc.com

dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The museum gives more details of 2,000 artefacts from its collection that are missing or stolen.
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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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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?

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Plot twist: the greeks and italians stole the artifacts back.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        There was an episode of Archer about this same thing…

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    Isn’t that just the stuff in the museum?

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      “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.

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    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

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

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      Me encanta lol

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      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.

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

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    Did you check in the back?

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    lol mad humor here

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

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

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