Re:The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations
by Ours90 on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:10AM
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I hope these international conventions at least partly answer your questions:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Convention_on_the_Means...
- https://www.unidroit.org/instruments/cultural-property/1995-...
Re:The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations
by boomboomsubban on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:42AM
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> the other concern is how are they protected by changes in who controls a region? We already witnessed what groups like ISIS are willing to do
How are they protected from changes in who controls their current region? We've already seen that the British are willing to grab what they find important and torch everything else...
What is not stolen today can be considered stolen tomorrow with changes in governments on either side. Then there are those lost to conquest.
There were recent stories about Ethiopia demanding back items lost in war [1]. The concerns must be, are they better back where they came from and are they even owned by who is now in power? the other concern is how are they protected by changes in who controls a region? We already witnessed what groups like ISIS are willing to do.
so my real questions are.
How recent must a change in possession occur for it to have relevance on who owns something? Does the means of how possession was done account for anything?
[1] http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201804300156-0025631