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Originally Posted by GLOW
damn, well played
made me remember the time i was talking to one of the engineers i worked with from china & told me china asked the gov for some historical items they looted back in the day returned, they were like nah, we'll keep it here for safe keeping in their museum
don't know if it was truth or if he was salty on past history |
True.
They asked again after it was found out a senior curator had been steeling and selling items from the museum.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ch...tution-2354921
The British Museum has long held that it is better equipped than other nations with less well-endowed institutions to safeguard historic artifacts