Oh dear, that’s nearly as bad as the Met! Though, of course, the Met bought their looted stuff recently, while the British Museum’s collections are mostly several hundred years old.
The British museum had a request from Egypt to return their artifacts and the British museum refused and said we take better care of them and they won’t give them back
They have the biggest Egyptian art collection I have ever seen. The sarcophagus’s are so beautiful like they were painted yesterday. The mummy’s are incredibly well preserved!
I believe there are more antiquities from the Acropolis in the British Museum than there are in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.of course, the “Elgin Marbles” are still in the British Museum.
addieson 9 months ago
Oh dear, that’s nearly as bad as the Met! Though, of course, the Met bought their looted stuff recently, while the British Museum’s collections are mostly several hundred years old.
pat sandy creator 9 months ago
The gems are being sold with the ‘buy it now’ feature.
Space_cat 9 months ago
Yes, I know this is your country…. But I dug these up with cheap labor I hired from the locals so that makes it mine, and anything else I can grab!
Zebrastripes 9 months ago
The British museum had a request from Egypt to return their artifacts and the British museum refused and said we take better care of them and they won’t give them back
They have the biggest Egyptian art collection I have ever seen. The sarcophagus’s are so beautiful like they were painted yesterday. The mummy’s are incredibly well preserved!
ekw555 9 months ago
I believe there are more antiquities from the Acropolis in the British Museum than there are in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.of course, the “Elgin Marbles” are still in the British Museum.
lorez.1 running on solar energy and batteries 9 months ago
thanks I’m pretty well stuck here because of my meds so I looked for virtual tours of museums and its all on line so anyone an visit great!
ChukLitl Premium Member 9 months ago
Isn’t there an Egyptian obelisk in Rome that was stolen a couple thousand years ago?
oakie817 9 months ago
archaeologists are legal grave robbers
LJZ Premium Member 9 months ago
BM has a great history of stolen history:
https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
jadem308 9 months ago
That’s exactly what I have been thinking! They stole a lot of the things in the museum, while they were enslaving people and exploiting the resources.
RabbitDad 9 months ago
The reason the Pyramids are in Egypt is they were too big to cart off to England.
banjoAhhh! 9 months ago
Mr. Wiggly: 1st panel. Not only did a staff member steal things so did a worm…so far unknown. Mr. Wiggly does seem to be better off. Hmmmm.