To: MrsEmmaPeel
The current Egyptians have no more in common with the scribers of the Rosetta Stone than do the Brits, and their title to it is no better.
Same is true of the Elgin Marbles, if you ask me.
Worse, if you send 'em back then every pissant country the Brits have ever looted will demand their stuff back. The Brits response should be "You can have it when you the means and the guts to come an take it!"
119 posted on
07/21/2003 2:13:55 PM PDT by
Little Ray
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To: Little Ray
Ok, so, by your logic, if the Nazis had won WWII, they would have been allowed to keep the art treasures they robbed from Poland, Russia, France etc. etc.?
122 posted on
07/22/2003 12:29:48 AM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Little Ray
And the "current Egyptians" also include Coptic christians who speak Coptic which is derived in part from ancient Egyptian and whose ceremonies, while Christian, reflect ancient Egyptian modes of worship. These are descended from the ancinet Egyptians, have a cultured derived from that and a language derived from the ancients. Don't they then have a claim on the artifacts?
123 posted on
07/22/2003 12:32:26 AM PDT by
Cronos
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