[Recon Dad]

Your reasoning is directly out of an era when the colonial powers ran around the world digging up and taking anything they wanted. For the most part there were very little controls in the countries at question at the time these artifacts were found.
What about the archaeologists of today? Using your logic they should still be carrying off their loot, if the governments of today are not worthy of receiving the returned artifacts of the past.
Displaying artifacts in London or Hartford or displaying in Giza or Peru I believe the latter is the proper location venue.

[Publius6961]

I cannot disagree with anything you say.

I am totally comfortable with having these stone age civilizations dig up, destroy, ignore, or shoot their "heritage" into orbit.

Just let them do it without our help. Or the help of "professional" hobbyists.

[GladesGuru]

I am underwhelmed with your logic. Give back to the Turd World artifacts which they will not protect/preserve?

As ideas go, that isn't. A statement of PC speak, yes - a viable idea regarding peservation of artifacts, no.

[Publius6961]

Displaying artifacts in London or Hartford or displaying in Giza or Peru I believe the latter is the proper location venue.

I don't care where they're displayed, or even if.
If you can find narratives of the Elgin Marbles, for instance, written before PC revisionism became endemic, you will find, in plain language, that they were purchased in a quarry (!) where they were scheduled to be ground for the lime and plaster.
In the context of the time, they were sold by the then owners the Turks *.
Judging events of 200 years ago by comtemporary Political Correctness is the triumph of ignorance, and a waste of time.

* In 1801 Elgin obtained a firman , or authority, from the Sultan which gave him permission to take away any sculptures or inscriptions which did not interfere with the works or walls of the citadel.