'The 9.5-gram tablet was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq.'
1 posted on
10/16/2013 7:27:03 AM PDT by
Theoria
To: Theoria
'The 9.5-gram tablet was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq.' So the Germans want it back because they nabbed it fair and square.
2 posted on
10/16/2013 7:28:42 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
To: Theoria
this one?
5 posted on
10/16/2013 7:36:59 AM PDT by
bigbob
To: Theoria
The government of Israel already negotiated reparations on behalf of the survivors.
If he truly considered it reparations (but obviously he did not) then his heirs would be asking for the tablet to be given to Yad Vashem or another worthy charity.
6 posted on
10/16/2013 7:41:19 AM PDT by
wideawake
To: Theoria
The author lost me with "safety" deposit box.
Quietly humming...Where have all the editors gone...?
7 posted on
10/16/2013 7:41:44 AM PDT by
NautiNurse
(Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
To: Theoria
The Germans pulled it out of the ground with the permission of the Ottoman government in charge at the time. Whoever took it from a German museum did so with the permission of the Russian government who was in charge at the time. If the Germans have a beef they should take it up with the ruskies but I guess it is just easier to get the shyster lawyers in the US to try and steal it back.
To: Theoria
"It's now in a safety deposit box on Long Island."Best go get it, that's no place to keep something valuable.
10 posted on
10/16/2013 8:03:43 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Theoria
The article contains one of my pet peeves, an error you see everywhere: It is “SAFE DEPOSIT” box, not “SAFETY DEPOSIT” box. Thanks. I feel better.
13 posted on
10/16/2013 8:23:31 AM PDT by
j.havenfarm
(Placer County: CA's Republican Citadel - 48.39% registration, highest in the state,)
To: Theoria
Under the Soviet rules at the time, there was permission to pillage and plunder, I believe emperor Hussein I is about to issue an Executive Order giving HIM first claim, should he chose.
15 posted on
10/16/2013 8:40:25 AM PDT by
The Sons of Liberty
(Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
To: Theoria
GET RID OF MUSEUMS. The zoos of the elites.
23 posted on
10/16/2013 5:57:54 PM PDT by
eleni121
("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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