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Oh well, the hipocresy.
"The British Museum should keep the artifacts it stole because the people they came from can't properly care for and protect them!"
Loses thousands of artifacts
It’s basically a British tradition at this point lol
"Give it back! We stole it first!!!!"
The irony
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He was selling to the highest bidder, not returning them.
Theft is theft
Pot, meet kettle.
The Tory budget cuts are deep...
They can't pay museum workers enough to stay honest...
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, etc.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum went to court Tuesday against a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online.
Lawyers for the museum say Higgs “abused his position of trust” to steal ancient gems, gold jewelry and other pieces from storerooms over the course of a decade.
Burgess said the defendant tried to “cover his tracks” by using fake names, creating false documents, manipulating the museum’s records and selling artifacts at less than their value.
Museum director Hartwig Fischer resigned after the loss of the items was revealed in August, apologizing for failing to take seriously enough a warning from an art historian that artifacts from its collection were being sold on eBay.
The 18th-century museum in central London’s Bloomsbury district is one of Britain’s biggest tourist attractions, visited by 6 million people a year.
They come to see a collection that ranges from Egyptian mummies and ancient Greek statues to Viking hoards, scrolls bearing 12th-century Chinese poetry and masks created by the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
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