Before any civilized nation should return these irreplaceable treasures to the latter day inhabitants of the original countries, these upstarts must demonstrate that they are mature enough to handle the rsponsibility. About 400 years would be a reasonable probation period, given the facts of history.
The backstory is, Zahi asked to borrow it, I think it was last year, and was turned down because it’s fragile. The year before or so, Zahi was bent out of shape because the German museum temporarily displayed it atop a plastic body-sculpture (tasteful, IMHO, but of course there was some simulated nudity involved). Earlier this year some Swiss scholar claimed that it wasn’t ancient at all, but a modern replica (I guess of something that hadn’t previously existed).