Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq

Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by lopmotr on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:24AM (#23244220)

Something 1000s of years old hardly belongs to any particular modern country. Perhaps if whoever is looking after it can't protect it from theft, they don't deserve to be looking after it and it's better that it got stolen. If an entire country is too weak to protect artifacts, then they should be given to somewhere that has that capability.

Who would want to return artifacts to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan just because the Taliban happened to control that piece of land at the time? Nobody cares about some little political group on the scale of 1000s of years.

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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by daseiner1 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:37AM (#23248156)

so you feel the same about the elgin marbles, presumably? because i absolutely adored seeing them at the British Museum, but it sorta feels to me like they ought to be returned to Athens

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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by lopmotr on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:15PM (#23267254)

I don't know what they are but if they were stolen, then obviously it was unable to protect them at that time. No, I don't think ancient Greek artifacts belong to modern Greek people or the modern Greece country. Perhaps they could just as well belong to the EU and be kept in any EU country. Who decides what political entities are the true heirs?

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