Yes, it should be a crime.
AND, modern day Iraqis are NOT Sumerians, they’re not Assyrians, or even Babylonians.
They are Muslim Arabs who has their Prophet, Mad Mo, telling them to destroy all idols where ever they find them, including antiquities.
The FBI might as well take the tablets out back and beat them with sledge hammers. Sending them back to Iraq means they’d be as lost.
Whoops, left this part out.
The “send it back” movement dealing with antiquities is just another screed in the long line of Leftist hate for Western Civilization.
“White men exploited native culture, lands, dug up holy, sacred ancestors” crap.
99 percent of these finds would still be unknown and buried in their discovered place, covered with sand, if it was not for Western archeologists and scientists who wanted to add to human (all humans—not one race) knowledge.