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Why is it not grave robbery to take artefacts from ancient graves and put them in a museum? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 weeks ago by tux0r to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~Because we have a flag~~ because everyone benefits from the effort to learn about and educate about ancient cultures. We presume that even those cultures benefit, because the memory of them is preserved instead of being forgotten.

Digging up artefacts for private collections, though - that's just grave robbery with a shine on it.