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

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    1 year ago

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

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      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.

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        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