Peru to Sue Yale to Regain Artifacts

I didn't know that. Many thanks for letting us know! I thought they got away with the silver, our inauguration celebration notwithstanding.

Finders, Keepers, dude. If I find a doubloon (or a heap of 'em), the Spanish government has no claim on my find 'cause it came from a wrecked galleon.

Dunno about the artifacts, but if Peru didn't make a deal to assert ownership or arrange for their return when they were discovered, they should be surely outta luck.

As for Iraq, it would be spoils of war. We shoulda moved all the worthwhile stuff out of Iraqi National Museum to the Smithsonian.

Sure took the Peru-vians a long time to complain.

So complaints have a statute of limitations?

But in this day where all things 3rd world are good and romanticized they get more traction.

Ah, so actually accepting that 3rd world nations have rights of sovereignty as the rest of the world is romanticizing things? Why can't they be good little vassal states like they should be!! That about it?

Can you imagine how chaotic Peru was when Yale spent money and effort to recover these treasures?

That doesn't change the issue that those treasures belong to the Peruvian government and their citizenry does it? What have Egypt and other older civilizations done to recover their artifacts. Should Peru not have the same right to do the same thing?

They would have just sat there if these "evil Anglo white men" had not mounted their expeditions.

I don't care if the researchers were black, green, purple, or yellow. It doesn't change the issue that these independent researchers violated the sovereignty of Peru. However I'm beginning to believe to some the color of the researchers, along with nationalistic tripe, is of a concern.

This is just the latest iteration of the centuries old Anglo-Spain conflict

No, this is the latest iteration of another nation state, and its citizenry apparently, believing that it has a greater right to sovereignty than another nation state.

So by dennisw's argument, a researcher can enter our borders, root around in the mud, find perhaps one of the greatest discoveries known to man (who knows?), take it home to his nation's museum without as much as a by your leave, and we would have no recourse. Well that is I suppose as long as he was an 'evil Anglo white man' and not of Spanish ancestry? And our researchers, have the right to go root around in other people's mud (third world nations only please), take what they want, and just because it's our researchers they can bring it back to our museums with no recourse for the nation it came from.

People around here carp and carp about Alberto Gonzales, but who do they think got that stuff back?

I'll take my 2nd Amendment rights over missing crap from the White House any day.