The British Museum will be known as the Caliphate Museum.
I expect the insurance premiums to be very high...
well at least they are only being loaned out.
while I am kind of conflicted about this, I believe these items would not exist today if the British Museum had not ‘acquired’ them
They will never be sent back to the UK. They will keep on extending the loan.
It will all come back to the UK, or maybe the U.S., soon enough.
As bling.
looted from the Ashanti Kingdom, and where did they get it from?
cause those faces sure as hell aren’t Ashanti..
Utterly stupid. They were not stolen. And sending them back to crapholes means they will vanish and get melted down.
looted ? More likely protected from the new rulers who would have melted it down.
I read years ago of modern explorers finding pure gold Mayan art treasures in Central America. The government of that nation seized the gold artifacts and melted them down into bullion.