verte76
Blue Crack Addict
Someone brought back a 7,000 year old vase? Excellent! I hope to be hearing more news like this soon. I think people implicated in the looting should be busted and put on trial, too. There have been reports that some of them were from some organized crime rings and other shady groups who routinely rip off art. Just last week some van Goghs and Gaugins were ripped off from some museum, I forget where it was. People bringing back artifacts didn't necessarily steal them, they just found them. If it can't be established that they were actually looters I don't think they should be punished. I read somewhere where the Islamic clergy in Iraq has encouraged people to return the artifacts. I hope they can get more of this stuff back.