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Who Owns the Past?
Monday, February 06, 2006
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has just decided to return a 2,500 year old vase to Italy. The Italians have long held that the vase was being wrongfully held in the U.S.
Who should own antiquities? What does it mean to be a caretaker of the past?
We look into ruins and restitution with David Hurst Thomas, archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History; and Dorothy King, British archaeologist and author of the recent book The Elgin Marbles.
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