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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The museum has now said most are Greek and Roman gems and jewellery, and shared pictures of similar items.

Sooooo....

Help, someone stole a tiny fraction of the shit we stole!

What's the statue of limitations before the most recent thieves are the legal owners?

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plot twist: the greeks and italians stole the artifacts back.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There was an episode of Archer about this same thing...

[–] Peaty@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that just the stuff in the museum?

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

"We found them in your display cases." -The public and experts

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my native Latin America we have this saying, "ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de perdón" ("a thief that steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness") and... yeah guess it may apply here

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok but they're artifacts from the Greek and Roman empires, which means they might be stolen stolen stolen goods...

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Me encanta lol

[–] Dra@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 year ago

Ever heard of "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?"

Latin America as a whole has absolutely zero advice to offer the rest of the world regarding domestic moral principles, I'm afraid.

[–] shermozle@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

These failed state countries can't be trusted to look after priceless artifacts. I propose they be moved to responsible countries like Nigeria and Greece for safekeeping.

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

So . . . we need to alert the rest of the world how to get their stuff back from the British Museum. Got it.

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Did you check in the back?

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

lol mad humor here

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have they considered marching an army into weaker countries and just taking new artifacts?

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's the British Museum so you know they have.