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shavingourbeards t1_iue861w wrote

Reply to comment by borischung01 in BBC News: UK museums willing to return skulls to Zimbabwe by GodlordHerus

Hmm, better condition to who? That’s very relative. The best condition would have been for them to stay belonging to their home.

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dream_plant t1_iufgdv8 wrote

Better to the humanity as a whole. Regardless of their place of origin, valuable historical artefacts should be preserved and protected in stable, academia driven non-corrupt secure countries that are capable to ensure their maintenance.

We don’t want keep these artefacts in places where tomorrow a military junta or isis can overthrow the government and then sell to private collectors or even destroy these items. Better safe than sorry.

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Lost-Matter-5846 t1_iuedqdn wrote

In most cases and most countries yes but there are still some countries where Artifacts would be purposefully destroyed

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