For The World To Come...

I have found myself pawing through an Art History book and I am reminded by my thoughts on stolen treasures! Artifacts taken from a country by archaeologists and untrained grave diggers and sold to either individual collectors, or in this case, museum collections. Who's heritage are you allowed to own? Should you be able to take an ancient artifact and claim it as your country of origin's property? Seems like some one is being taken advantage of!

So, what do we do with what is done is done? Maybe, depending on circumstances of acquirement may one decide on who gets final ownership of the object in question.

I propose when we move forward that the country of origin gets to own and display their citizens, ancestors', works of art. If you have an archaeologist in your land from away then maybe you work out a contract on how to proceed: the object stays in said country maybe with traveling exhibition rights in the future and the archaeologist is given credit for his/her discovery! Should an archaeologist get a royalty for ticket sales to see such an exhibit?

There are still discoveries out there.