Sure took the Peru-vians a long time to complain. But in this day where all things 3rd world are good and romanticized they get more traction. Can you imagine how chaotic Peru was when Yale spent money and effort to recover these treasures? They would have just sat there if these "evil Anglo white men" had not mounted their expeditions.
This is just the latest iteration of the centuries old Anglo-Spain conflict
So complaints have a statute of limitations?
But in this day where all things 3rd world are good and romanticized they get more traction.
Ah, so actually accepting that 3rd world nations have rights of sovereignty as the rest of the world is romanticizing things? Why can't they be good little vassal states like they should be!! That about it?
Can you imagine how chaotic Peru was when Yale spent money and effort to recover these treasures?
That doesn't change the issue that those treasures belong to the Peruvian government and their citizenry does it? What have Egypt and other older civilizations done to recover their artifacts. Should Peru not have the same right to do the same thing?
They would have just sat there if these "evil Anglo white men" had not mounted their expeditions.
I don't care if the researchers were black, green, purple, or yellow. It doesn't change the issue that these independent researchers violated the sovereignty of Peru. However I'm beginning to believe to some the color of the researchers, along with nationalistic tripe, is of a concern.
This is just the latest iteration of the centuries old Anglo-Spain conflict
No, this is the latest iteration of another nation state, and its citizenry apparently, believing that it has a greater right to sovereignty than another nation state.
So by dennisw's argument, a researcher can enter our borders, root around in the mud, find perhaps one of the greatest discoveries known to man (who knows?), take it home to his nation's museum without as much as a by your leave, and we would have no recourse. Well that is I suppose as long as he was an 'evil Anglo white man' and not of Spanish ancestry? And our researchers, have the right to go root around in other people's mud (third world nations only please), take what they want, and just because it's our researchers they can bring it back to our museums with no recourse for the nation it came from.