[KneelBeforeZod]

The Declaration of Independence is part of US history.

Something indians made isn't.

Even the current day Egyptologist seem to think the ancient egyptians were ASIANS. They all say that TODAYS Egyptians are a mix of arab, medditerranian, ROMAN, etc blood.

Your DoI example doesn't work. To compare it to the Rosetta Stone, you need to make your example the british (or whoever) taking a bunch of arroheads, baskets and pottery.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

The Declaration of Independence is part of US history.

I know it is. The Parthenon marbles are part of Greek history, the Rosetta stone part of Egyptian. (It was found in the Nile delta by the French). Yet there are many here on this list that don't want the marbles returned to Greece or the Rosetta stone returned to Egypt. So many people have been stating things like the Greeks don't deserve to have the return of their marbles because the Brits can look after them better.

In my hypotethical scenario, the Declaration of Independence gets stolen in 1812, is acknowledge stolen by 1816 but still not returned. We all know that the marbles were stolen and acknowledged stolen in 1816 and still have not been returned.

Why is it OK for Greece not to have her property back, but it would be OK for us to demand the return of ours?

You seem to imply that because that civilzation is no longer in existence, then its artifacts are fair game. I would disagree. Those that have inherited the land, inherit the artifacts from that land. For example, modern Iraq no more resembles ancient Babylonia than Italy resembles ancient Rome. But Iraqi artifacts belong to the Iraqi people, and not to anyone who wants to steal them. Ancient Roman artifacts, on Italian soil belong to the Italian people. Ancient Roman artifacts on Spanish soil belong to the Spanish, etc.