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Why is it not grave robbery to take artefacts from ancient graves and put them in a museum? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone who doesn't like what someone does can call it robbery. Like charging a price that is too high in someone's opinion.

But robbery in a legal sense is about property. If you dig up body in a legal cemetary, which generally means owned by some organization that runs the cemetery, that is probably real persecutable grave robbery. Elsewhere, not so much.