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And I have been to the National Museum in Athens. It is nicely laid out. The star attractions of both museums are golden artifacts from tombs. King Tut for the Cairo museum and the Royal tombs at Mycenae (the golden death mask of "Agamenon") in the Athens museum. Essentially these artifacts have been stolen from graves. There is no more respecting of cultural heritage in these museums in the national capitals than anywhere else. I'm sure the locals around the Valley of Kings in Egypt and the archeological site of Mycenae would love to have "their" gold returned to the place where they supposedly rightfully belong.

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I totally agree that lots of artifacts were stolen. And that their countries of origin don't make much effort to take care of them.

I went to the Louvre, but frenchies being what they are...I couldn't see their huge swiped Egyptian collection because the staff was on strike the whole week we were there.