alt Hacker NewsI've stood in the Cairo museum and looked at a wooden sarcophagus that's had all of it's gold chiseled off of it. Something that was once a work of art reduced to a wooden box for the price of a few ounces of gold. I have mixed feelings about repatriation and the elephant in the room, the British.
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s1artibartfast • 10/01/2024
Seems to be a major bias in this perspective against the British. The contemporary Egyptians at the time of collection had even less interest in preservation.
Do you even know that the gold was removed by the British, and not some enterprising locals? The British were not cultural outliers in their graverobbing. They were outliers in that they saw historical value in items and chose to preserve them, instead of deconstructing them.
There literally was an curator of the British Museum that stole 1800 artifacts and sold them for personal profit. Don't pretend this doesn't happen to the British.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/26/british-museum-s...