r/Damnthatsinteresting 27d ago

Every stolen artifact needs to come back to its land. Video

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u/Gcons24 26d ago

The English museums have been politely saying nah chap for hundreds of year

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u/wakkers_boi 26d ago

The fact the artefacts all still exist stands testament to that decision.

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u/castleaagh 26d ago

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u/Gcons24 26d ago

I was thinking of this exact skit when I made that comment haha

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u/Happystrawberryy 26d ago

As they should. Egypt has showed they can’t protect shit. With stuff this old it’s It’s OUR history.

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u/F3770 26d ago

No Egyptians live in Egypt anymore.

So you basically “stole” artefacts that the Arabs stole from the Greeks, who stole it from the Egyptians.

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u/Samcraft1999 26d ago

Egypt "can't protect shit" sure, although that's a gross simplification of that issue. That said it's not YOUR history, if it's anyone's it belongs to the Egyptians, but it's really humanity's history.

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u/halibunton 26d ago

Exactly. "Those artifacts aren't safe in Egypt, they could get stolen!"

Yeah, YOU stole them! How about help protect it in Egypt if its supposed to be humanity's history

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u/Samcraft1999 26d ago edited 26d ago

Again unreasonable, why does everyone go to extremes to "fix" things that aren't broken? The British have absolutely no obligation to guard Egypt's culture. That said, while they don't exactly have claim to the artifacts they've put in these museums, it has no doubt kept those relics safe from the instability of North Africa whether this guy realizes it or not.

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u/lowenbeh0ld 26d ago

Oh wait, we don't actually care about brown people, just their stuff

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u/Juliyanus 26d ago

They don't care about their own stuff. It should stay where it's safe.

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u/Codemonkey1987 26d ago

If British military rolled into Egypt to protect it there would be a shit storm and Islamic countries around the world would be telling us to get fucked. So no, let Egypt protect themselves. Egypt also has a shit ton of oil like Saudi, Qatar and these gulf states. They should be a rich society with tons of infrastructure etc, but I guess they have a few corrupt leaders who take it all for themselves and don't give a shit about the people.

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u/KookyEmu7 26d ago

Lmao sorry your what ?

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u/Reginaferguson 26d ago

They haven't been invaded for 955 years so probably pretty safe there.

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u/Juliyanus 26d ago

Safe from locals? That's what most looters are.

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u/Squidwardsnose69 26d ago

Finders Keepers

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u/Cardboard-Samuari 25d ago

Its why they are still around lol

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u/Top_Lime1820 26d ago

Sorry but err... Sorry no thanks... Sorry.