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It is time for great institutions to cease purchasing stolen goods. If collectors refused items without legal provenance, it would do much to defeat the tomb robbers, wouldn't it? I for one would like to see the artifacts of this great civilization repatriated, to a home where their ka(s) can rest. Surely, out of context, they are only treasure, when in truth, they are so much more than that. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Louvre and the Berlin Museum returned these to their home? Imagine Nefertiti's beauty at home again. Imagine the joy of that return. Imagine the joy of the return of the noble dead to the land of their birth. I wonder if we shouldn't see any Egyptian artifact outside of Egypt as contraband, even if archaeologists of other countries acquired them. And another thing! Did you know that when Napoleon went into Egypt, his soldiers made potshots at the face of the Sphinx, that plundered mummies were taken away, and it became a fad of the elite and they would have unwrapping parties, that the ground remains of their bodies became a nostrum, as though the beautiful mystery of their true lives could heal the ill so greedy for life. No such travesty could heal anything. Repatriation could, though.
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