MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoUS returns huge haul of stolen artefacts to Italywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1221arrow-down1external-linkUS returns huge haul of stolen artefacts to Italywww.bbc.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.
minus-squareVanillaGorilla@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squareHumanius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoDifference 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
minus-squareVanillaGorilla@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYou need to tune your irony detectors
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.
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
You need to tune your irony detectors
Have you ever heard of Poe’s law?