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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9599643, member: 79705&quot;]Western countries and museums are not immune. WW2, of course. So there is the argument it is a colonial mindset...and an infantilization of other countries. Egypt just built the most state of the art museum ever, but certainly their artifacts are wide-spread, and not through mutual agreement on all.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also the question of who is profiting from these sales. Terrorists, black market grave robbers, conquering armies, etc. and what that finances. The people of those cultures bearing the loss of culture, community learning, tourism economy, and the actual cash, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the protection of the works were the point, then cultural institutions and their stewards would be making deals for transport and storage, with agreements on return of artifacts. Ongoing repatriation is important.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the Taliban, there was the news they pledged not to hurt cultural artifacts and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120295517/afghanistan-national-museum-taliban-cultural-heritage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120295517/afghanistan-national-museum-taliban-cultural-heritage" rel="nofollow">were protecting the National Museum</a>. But as in this NPR article, they were also consulting with Chinese companies on exploiting copper at a historical site. I don&#039;t know how that played out, except to say that Chinese companies did sign a multi-billion agreement to mine for an array of ores in different places in the country, this year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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