Ask HN: Why is repatriating iconic artifacts to Egypt a bad idea?

1 pointAnatMl24 comments

I'm sorry if this question is a bit out of context, I'd just really appreciate opinions of people who do not specialize in museology or any other related subject (archaeology, Egyptology, etc.). Although opinions of the professionals will be also very welcome!

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http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-traffic-...

This article is from August,2013, right after the Egyptian coup d'état in July of the same year happened. The situation is not the same currently.

> currently

Museums should only be as safe as the current regime?

Priceless artifacts should be safe for millennia.

And on the scale of millennia why would they be safer in Europe or the US than Egypt? Heck, many of them were safe in Egypt for millennia already.

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