Who (really) owns the past?(antiquities' ownership)

From: World Policy Journal | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The nub of what follows can be simply expressed. Who has true title to antiquities or art treasures? Is it the country of origin? Or even a tribe? Does a good-faith purchase and possession trump another country's laws? In any case, are art treasures or antiquities a legitimate prize of war? Coincidentally, these questions have joined together in a media cascade stretching from Italy and Peru to New Haven and Kennewick in the State of Washington, spanning the centuries from pre-Columbian North America to the Second World War and the troubled U.S. intervention in Iraq.

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