December 13, 2011
Famous disputes over ancient artefact ownership
A few weeks ago, France announced that they would return various Māori heads taken from New Zealand. This article looks at some of the other well-known disputes over artefacts.
From:
Daily Telegraph
Famous disputes over ownership of ancient artefacts
10:30AM BST 09 May 2011Elgin Marbles
France has agreed to return more than one dozen Maori heads taken from new Zealand more than a century ago. Here are some other ongoing disputes between nations over prized ancient artefacts:
Probably the most famous, and one of the longest running, disputes over ownership of ancient artefacts is the battle between Britain and Greece over the Elgin Marbles.
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