Two UK #museums lose funding after the controversial sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue

[A Real Human Bean]

It's a fair question.

Do the Egyptian people own the ancient Egyptian artifacts? The government? How do you determine ownership on something that is 1000's of years old?

I'm not trying to instigate an argument, I'm asking a realistic question. Who would/should these artifacts belong to today? If they were taken from the museum where should they go?

It's pretty simple: they should go to the country where they were found. Virtually every country has laws concerning rights to cultural property. When archaeologists go digging and have good finds they can't just take them and put them in a museum some where in Britain.

If you find some Native American artifact in the United States you know damn well you can't go and put it in a museum overseas, but when it comes to Egyptian artifacts people wanna ask "Do Egyptian people own Egyptian artifacts?"

 

[McTwerk]

It's pretty simple: they should go to the country where they were found. Virtually every country has laws concerning rights to cultural property. When archaeologists go digging and have good finds they can't just take them and put them in a museum some where in Britain.

If you find some Native American artifact in the United States you know damn well you can't go and put it in a museum overseas, but when it comes to Egyptian artifacts people wanna ask "Do Egyptian people own Egyptian artifacts?"

In all fairness I said I misunderstood what ownership meant and corrected myself in additional posts in this thread.