The items were all stolen from Italy in the late 1990s and some were worth millions of euros.

The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.

  • Yendor@sh.itjust.works
    191·
    1 year ago

    Italy wouldn’t want to start that conversation - the city of Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt.

    • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      The house I’m living in in Germany is built on top of a Roman pottery district. I hope they don’t want that one back.

      • Humanius@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        Difference is that those Egyptian obelisks were not built in modern day Italy by the Egyptians, but the Roman pottery district was built in modern day Germany by the Romans

        A lot of the obelisks in European cities were stolen from Egypt