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Not to commit a high crime of having a nuanced take on a circle-jerked to death issue. But many of the "stolen" artifacts only exist today because they were safe guarded by the musuem. Many more would be at best, kept in complete private collections away from the public and historians. And plenty more don't have a direct modern day counterpart, or have split modern ancestry, so don't have a clear place to return them to if they wanted to return them.
And yes, there are some artifacts where none of that applies and they should be returned, but I would believe those to be the minority.
There’s a lot of well preserved stone feet across the world that might beg to differ
Interestingly enough, most cultures preserve their old historical artifacts…you know, because it’s their culture
Cool, many dont, and many that do dont give public access to their collections.