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The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.
The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.
BBC trying to ignore the elephant in the room with all of their stolen artefacts
Q: Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
A: Because they were too heavy to move to England
Recycling material is old
Italy wouldn’t want to start that conversation - the city of Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt.
The house I’m living in in Germany is built on top of a Roman pottery district. I hope they don’t want that one back.
Difference is that those Egyptian obelisks were not built in modern day Italy by the Egyptians, but the Roman pottery district was built in modern day Germany by the Romans
A lot of the obelisks in European cities were stolen from Egypt
You need to tune your irony detectors
Have you ever heard of Poe’s law?
Kind of different, a lot of the same.
This seems like an excellent time to recommend an excellent podcast: Stuff The British Stole