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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theoderic, post: 7990687, member: 110471&quot;]The Brits have it because they expended the blood and money to defeat Napoleon; the French had it because they expended the effort and money to excavate it.&nbsp; Sorry, but that has been the way of the world since time immemorial.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad they did because only that way did it become known, studied, and ultimately the key to translating hieroglyphics which unlocked the entire world of ancient Egypt for us all.&nbsp; What would have happened if they decided to do the currently sensitive and &quot;correct&quot; thing to do and just left it there?&nbsp; Absolutely nothing.&nbsp; No one in Egypt or their colonial masters in the Ottoman Empire, who sat on it for centuries, could have cared less about their pre-Islamic patrimony.&nbsp; Suddenly, and only once Westerners demonstrated that the object had great value for world civilization, did Egyptian nationalists spot an opportunity and start chirping about &quot;theft&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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