[email protected]English • 2 months ago

Why is it not grave robbery to take artefacts from ancient graves and put them in a museum?

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Why is it not grave robbery to take artefacts from ancient graves and put them in a museum?

[email protected]English • 2 months ago

As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

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2 months ago
Because English archaeologists would have been upset by semantics.

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