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  • Back in the times these treasures were stolen, there really wasn't anything stopping international robbery.

  • Derp a Derp,, every country in europe and the world does this.

  • Can we have the Three Graces back please?

  • this made me lol at americans soooo much and there little understanding of history and the inerworkings of our museums.

  • and image all the jewels art and stuff they took for themselves. their riches (white ppl as a whole) is build off of slavery and plunder. look at those wall street ppl clear example

  • when it said "hows that for the famed british politeness?" it completely contradicts one of the "reasons" england ruined the world about us being to polite

  • What about the treasures like peoples only possesions that Amercia has deystroyed! Will you give those back, Imbercilica?

  • Where would they be now if they were left there?! for goodness the egyptians destroyed mummies to plaster their walls and the americans are just as bad the sioux, cheyenne lakota cree cherokee and iroquois were all turned down and beaten by the government of the us. You're just hopeless scum

  • and i guess the doctor papanickolaou (pap) was english . and theatre or acting was english too. and archemedes was english when he founded the musical scales we and u use today and his mathematical formulas, and i guess the scientists tha name all the planets and stars and alot of other findings english names.

  • what has this got to do with the stolen artifacts???? and why does all the world still use the greek langauge (yes english is made up of greek) and why do u still use our mathematical formulas?why still call most things from the greek. asronaught for example. who cares about where england went. if u read alexanders power was the mightiest . even by todays standards. dont send ur athletes (greek) to the olympics. ok? they r our games we still have more influence but it doesnt show.

  • Well we obtained many artefacts from Egypt when we defeated the French there, so it wasn't really stolen. Many artefacts we see in the BM were obtained by aristocratic collectors in the 18th and 19th century, who once travelled Europe buying artefacts from traders there, for example the Elgin Marbles. They were not rampaging through stealing artefacts at the point of a gun.

    And WHY IN THE HELL would you promote a book in the country you are trying to slag off? Dumb American bag of wank!

  • every museum has objects from around the world. thats why its a museum. Just like museums in America have things from other countries. You're stupid.

  • And countries such as America have not foreign object, pharoes and tombs in their museums? man everyone else is 'perfect' lol. Don't make me laugh. if these were to go back to their original sityes today in some decaying monument of times before, someone else would go in and steal it for themselfes if it's just standing around. Sorry but you cannot just go about criminalising one country.

  • British are thives. fuck british.

  • LOL, I like how everyone reverses the point of the video and blames everything on America and points them in a bad light. SO. FUCKING. TYPICAL. Anti-Americanism at its finest. By the way, we (the brits) were the first ones killing Indians in north America. The "Americans" (who still had a british accent!) just finished the job. Fuck everyone, stop pointing fingers at the yanks, and live up to your own countries mistakes. (Btw all of those wars? We fought along side the yanks in most of them).

  • @Raajur dude chill and it was native americans

    

  • so many english hypocrites here

  • @111jasy111 Piss off, theres enough of you scumbags in this world already

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  • @111jasy111 Fuck you too you inbred cunt.

  • HAHAHAHAHA, 'stolen treasures' A MUSEUM lol this evil empire is to funny, im english and i want to read this book. Its a museum, countries around the world give artifacts to it haha

  • @steve4presedint give... (irony?)

  • @111jasy111 ironic in the sense that we used to steal them and now theyre given to us yes, if thats what your getting at?

  • But those were gifts from the Ottoman Ambassaor. Google It.

  • What about all the Armour and British shit they have in there Museums? I think our culture is as rich, as or even richer then theres.

  • you do know that a lot of those things where actually given to the British by the indigenous populations right?

  • @Leekduck uh no they werent. go ahead and live in your delusional land while the rest of us live in the real world. i'm sure the egyptians gave their mummies and shit to britain as a thank you for colonizing them. Prick!

  • @MsDDiddy Yes because I single-handedly colonised a place I have never been to

  • @Leekduck who the hell is talking about YOU? i'm talking about YOUR country's dark history and it's decedents' delusions. at least americans admit their wrongs in slavery and native american eradications.

  • @MsDDiddy But what about Nuclear Weapons? Most American's don't even know what Operation Condor was

    also most briton's accept that a lot of the empire was built upon child labour which is something we are very remorseful about but nobody is going to take responsibility for something they did not do

  • @Leekduck ok listen. no one is asking for reparations. no one's even asking for apologies because what happened was before your time and mine. but isn't reasonable to ask for the things that britain took during colonization of egypt, sudan, and india which were around the late 1800's to mid 1900's? we're not talking ancient empires here. these are things that were stolen decades ago and the british can't deny their origins.

  • @MsDDiddy the museum actually gives things back if the local population asks for them, they did so recently with skeleton's from the Torres strait

  • @Leekduck the british museum doesn't. it has a history of refusing cooperation. other british museums do but not this one.

  • @MsDDiddy K so one museum equals an entire nation?

  • @Leekduck are you being serious with that fucking question? have you even been to the bloody british museum? it houses very few things that are actually of british origin. there are things from india, and loads from africa and guess what? they were taken without permission so excuse me if some of us want our shit back.

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  • This guy is a parasite and an asshole.

  • This is THE dumbest video i think i've ever watched on Youtube.

  • @lolque1892 If you are mentally challenged, don't blame youtube for not understanding a video!

  • This is somewhat... Hypocritical...

  • America also has artefacts stolen from other countries which they won't give back.

  • @Kittywhiskers1000 YES! They stole my balls and they won't give them back! I demand my bollocks back damnit!!!

  • Funny? im sure tutankhamuns mask has been back to egypt a few times, im sure its some sort of mutual agreement which makes it safer to be here?

  • I've really had enough of this F******* ass hole

  • britain you are the real terrorist of this world we live in

  • @MrMickroast i really have had enough of people like you, and Steven Grasse, to the point where I would feel happy to kill him and you

  • @jakeshortj  Try it boy

  • @MrMickroast

    I wish i could pal. Im not a kid neither what goes around comes around.

  • @MrMickroast Moron.

  • fuck you

  • 00:45 eso es de chile. devuelvanllo britanicos ladrones de mierda

  • I've been to the British Museum and the V&A. Every museum is filled with stolen goods, I think you had better empty out all the Museums in the USA as well.

  • yer we raped the world let not bouther to notic that the usa has been in 70 wars in the last 50 years thats about 14 wars a decade and have stollen or atemted to steal oil from all

  • all artifacts in history dont belong to the brits . ur governments are thieves,, u assholes dont have a history to show of ur own so u show ours and others, ouldnt it be good if the crown jewels were in greece, how would you like that, mungrels , you loot every country u set ur foot in, , there is no anglo saxon history just a history of looting

  • @greekvoice we have quite a unique history and have effectively made the world as it is today

  • @stevenhafu you have made the world what it it today?????? if it wasnt for the ancient greeks( not the modern greeks) the world would not be as it is today. democracy for example, sport . mathematics . music ( archemedes invented the modern musical scales we have today) and so on ..... what did england do . go to countries where there were defencless natives and take over that country. and any others are called wogs,

  • @stevenhaful and as u are aware u are a westerner. GREECE is the birthplace of western civilisation . so u lot come from us . and our heritage and artifactts are ours and we want them. so why is the greek government asking for them ? tell me ur history. what u all achieved. and them ill tell u my history and compare ok??

  • @greekvoice the modern world is what we acheived the industrial revolution made the world as it is today, the magna carter was the first legal written document that restricted the powers of the monarch, the british empire spanned 1/4 of the globe spreading are influence everywhere, greek influence was eliminated at about the middle ages when barbarian tribes ravaged europe

  • what makes me giggle is that this is all acient art, the people we "stole" it from dont exist anymore! how could we give it back?

  • @tobyn123 its their natural heritage a part of their historical culture.

  • @tobyn123 Finally 1 british accepted that they stole.what a lame excuse for not giving back.

  • @Valvekrantikari were are you from? you were probably a part of it too. not meaning that in an offensive manor!

  • I think you'll find that no one really wants these treasures back! If people wanted it back so much it would be in the news and it would be known as a scandal! These were discovered and taken from the original location when no one owned them.  And a lot of these weren't from people of a country today but of tribes and civilizations that aren't around any more!

  • @chickenruler i tend to differ i for one as a greek do want my cultures historical things back,,, speak for ur self not for cultures that r still around. and dont forget we(greeks r the birthplace of the western culture .and as a hellenic i do want to see my stuff go back to where they belong and alot of other cultures such as the egyptians which the ancient greeks also had roots there and alot of artifacts are also greek, as in many other countries in the middle east and europe

  • @greekvoice

    I am an American, myself and I for one wholeheartedly think that the Greeks are the real mothers of Western Civilization. We owe you a great debt. I believe you ought to get your [recious artifacts back, starting with the Elgin Marbles...

  • These yanks are blaitantly JEALOUS of us Brits. I mean I cant blame them we are simply the best so all the Brit hating yanks out there go and FUCK yourselfs! p.s British reperations grow a pair of balls and actualy look back at what your doing because you have no fucking idea what your onabout your just jealous of us.

    "God Save the Queen!"

  • Pretty funny, all these Brits justifying their raping, pillaging, and slave making. Still, their greatest crime has to be taking the soul out of rock and roll.

  • @buckydent we took the soul out of rock n roll??? hahaha we pioneer music.. rock n roll and ever other genre apart from speedcore and that jenk!! and i dont think were justifying the raping and pillaging itself but the outcomes of that raping and pillaging is your homeland you tit! god i dont like delinquants! your one of those idiots that argues about something then contradicts yourself 2 minutes later arent you? LOL please go get an education my friend...

  • @tobyn123 lmao what music have you "pioneered"? You dont have any music except classical

  • @DeportAnchorBabies well indie for one... metal.. for two... we have pioneered a small part of the dance era.. acid house to be exact.. you remember those days.. its called the 90's!

  • In 0 AD (or is that BC?) the vilest land emerged & it sought to keep everyone else in bondage.

    So it looked yonder sea to where the peaceable Franks were killing Germanics who killed the Visigoths who killed the Huns who killed the Romans who killed the Greeks who killed the Egyptians who killed the Persians who killed the Babylonians who killed the Sumerians who killed...

    Strange eh? We look upon George Custer and Genghis Khan with awe...

    But them damn Brits...?

  • not stolen given as gift to our "kings and queens for building the best greatest and most powerfullest empire the world has ever seen. I SEE THE BRITISH REPERRATIONS DELETED MY LAST COMMENT I POSTED, CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT, YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT AH GO CRY LIKE BABY HAHAHAHHAHHAH

  • @kinkaid25 HAHAHA ya right just like we irish give u are land no we didn't U stole it Oh AND ITS WAS NOT THE GREATEST EMPIRE IN THE WORLD ALL IT WANTED WAS BLOOD.

  • @Irishandpround1 "Britain did have the greatest empire, we are the back bone of the civilized world. You cannot have an empire as big as what Britain did without doing one or two bad things. Britain created the world we live in today, more or less. There is now evil way beyond our powers and Britain will defend it's self. I like Ireland, i don't know much about it's history as i was not taught it in school, this was through the IRA Bombings in Manchester and vice versa.

  • @kinkaid25 ok I will give that britain did make the civilized world but not one or two bad things i don't really think so your country pretty much made slavery killed inccents cause they were different from u and cultrues and your weren't irish history cause the IRA bombing thats because you wil know Y they were attcking U.

  • @Irishandpround1 I don't know anything about Irish heritage at all, all i do know is when the IRA bombed manchester our teacher refused too teach us anything about Irish cultures and heritage. I tell you one thing i do know about Ireland and thats the Irish make the best goddamn stout i have ever tasted. I was born in 1983 which makes me "27, i do hope Ireland and britain can sort out our differences and carry on living normal lives. my name is BRENDAN :)

  • @kinkaid25 Theres a very very some chance that Ireland and Britain can move forward cause there are lots and I mean lots of Irish people who want the Queen or Prime Minster to say sorry all I want is peace and the land that was rightfulling ours

    is that to hard to get Nice to meet ya :)

  • @Irishandpround1 hey buddy greece is the birthplace of western civillisation we have a world today because of that not the brits.. oh i gather the brits did the olympics, or mathematics or science medicine, astronomy etc,,,, get ur facts straight. the greek empire was the most important as it gave the world almost what we have today , democracy being another do a bit of research first

  • Why do they only blame England, what about the rest of the UK? and what about all the treasures that the USA has stolen, are they aloud to keep them?

  • Sure America, just give back the land you stole, plundered, collared etc from the Indians and then we'll talk.

  • @mightywindmill102 totally support what you say.Americans always act the innocent,although their history is probably the bloodiest one of all =/

  • so let's see, EU and USA must give back half of the contents of their museums to italy, than the italians must handle half of the contents of their museums to greece, egypt an turkey, than the turks must give back half of the contents of their museums to egypt, iraq and israel. Anybody else waiting on the line?. Ok let's give everything to the egyptians and have an end of it. OOps, sorry, nowadays egyptians as not much to do with the originals, they are mostly arabian and turkish invaders...

  • Britain: All you had to do was look in the mirror at your own teeth, but instead you chose to ruin the whole entire world. What a damn shame it is to have this heritage.

  • @ThayinJai ROFL! Britain where the ones who invented dentistry. Go cut down a tree

  • well technically they objects are part of our history as well cause we stole them muhahahahahahahaha

  • Founders keepers losers weepers ner ner...ner ner...ner.

  • this book seems to be whiping up alot of anti english sentiment. so to all the people who think the english was an is a evil empire im sorry but go fuck yourselfs. It was our god given right to rule most of the world and take what ever we found in the other countrys for ourselfs. its the rule of war the stronger country takes from the weeker ones period. we had a little practice with wales scotland and irleland then we perfected it on the rest of the world

  • @patsyd80

    ''God-given right'', ehhh?? Somehow I don't think God would of approved the killing and oppression of millions of Whites, Blacks and Asians all over the world?? More like a work of the Devil....lol!

  • @patsyd80 Your "God given right"? If it was your God given right and as you say "perfected it", why have you not managed to sustain that power over those countries which you failed to take over?

  • Englang only knows how to rape,murdre,steal,and lie.they are a threat to world security.

  • @sjhannigan1 Your a threat to world security yah fucking paki

  • WTF its a museum! What's the point of going to a museum if it has nothing but British things in it.

  • That is a misrepresentation of the argument....

  • @LlamasOnAcid cause just like your food, your football team, your cricket team, and anything else Brit...Its all shite!

  • @MrJay429 I'm not a birt you idiot. And from whatever country I am from I don't take national pride seriously anyways.

  • Why would we give it back? It's safer and better perserved in England than in those loser countries we got them from.

  • sam1ofGB, it's not for you to make that decision as those artifacts are not yours. It's better for Egyptian artifacts to go back to the Cairo Museum. Dr. Zahi Hawass would do a much better job in taking care of Egyptian Antiquities than any one of the no name Brit archaeologists, that's for sure...

  • and the american national museum is made up only of american things? doubt it

  • hahaha..you want your stuff back?..come fukin get it

  • yes, do hand it over...hahaha!

  • We'll hand stuff back from the British museum if you Americans give back the land you stolen i.e. your entire country. Of course you'll have no where to go, but then again that's why there's a sea, to drown yourselves in.

  • Hey Grobo, you'd have to do the same with your country and hand it all back to the original Celt inhabitants.....Remember the all of the invasions going back in history. So I look forward to meeting ya in Davie Jones' Locker....lol!

    So go ahead and start forking it over...

  • I'm sorry have you looked at a map latley? Tell me do you see Canada, Australia, New-Zealand etc. shaded in red? No you don't because we gave them independence. Our Empire ended a long time ago, sadly I can't say the same for you. So as it goes, give back all your country then drown yourself. Give the celts their country back? I'm Scottish, I am a celt you twat. And I'm British go figure so that just puts you in the dark lol.

  • Except our country is not an Empire. We actually have a concept called Fair Representation.....

    So no, as much as it would probably upset I'm not going to drown myself.....

    But let me add this, while your Empire ended a while ago, you're still enjoying your ill-gotten gold.....

  • The same to you. Although your quest for more land is over, the hurt still remains as you constantly rape the land and rub it in the faces of the natives.

  • oh please....

    We've had Native American Congessmen and Senators. Their nations are autonomous with their own tribal governments, tribal courts and tribal police.

    But I wanna bring this back to archaeology. Do you really think that you appreciate some one else's historical artifacts more than the guy from the country where it was unearthed??

  • Name me artifacts we have stolen. We bought all of those items, we never stole them. Besides, what country doesn't have artifacts belonging to another country.

  • grobo, really bought all of these objects?? Especially back during the Imperial Days?

  • I see you have avoided naming any objects that we have stolen. Proof is needed my boy. lol.

  • tablets of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for one.

  • The original Rosetta Stone to be returned to the Cairo museum.

  • Two artifacts. Is that it?

  • Wow, I'm actually at the edge of an iceberg here....Believe it or not, I'm no archaeology or museum buff, but just a little bit of research is yielding me some pretty interesting results...

    And actually your reaction is the problem right there. You say ''just these two artifacts''. Well for the people of those countries these individual artifacts are a reminder of their history, a piece of themselves...

  • Return of the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece...

  • Have any of these countries actually asked for these back?

  • Yes, they actually have. In fact Dr. Hawass of the Cairo Museum is spearheading the movement to have Egyptian artifacts returned to Egypt to be displayed in Egyptian museums.

  • You made out that everything in that museum was stolen when it wasn't. So instead of finding the hundreds that this video and yourself claimed you found less then a handful. And you're going to tell me that there arn't any foreign objects in American museums?

  • Not at all. Those are just the infamous examples. I can find a lot more if I had hours to spend compiling a list. Oh and btw, grobo, I think if other nations have ancient British artifacts, they ought to be returned to Britain.

    And yes, there are foreign objects in American museums, and i think that those objects should be returned as well.

  • You see I wouldn't mind if Greece or Egypt had British objects. It's great that we have objects from other countries as we get to learn of their culture and their ancestors. We're opening our minds to knoweldge and grasping a better understanding of the world around us.

  • No, I'm not contemplating the return of all objects. Only those that really go beyond and are regarded as national treasures. The Parthenon Marbles have been specifically been requested by Greece for years, and every time the Brits reject them.

  • Well I don't see how you could achieve anything by commenting on this video.

  • That's irrelevant. The video and the attached forum is here for folks to discuss and/or debate.

  • But the problem is that people will find it very difficult to come to Britain to learn about THEIR OWN history.

  • We all know our history.

  • No.  You took their history. And they want it back.

  • Well too bad. We're all too busy trying to sort our own country out rather then give a few objects back.

  • Bull crap. Your museum officials are not sorting their own country. They can give these ''few objects'' back. The fact that you just term them as objects rather than artifacts or treasures just highlights my point as to why the Brits should not be keeping them.. It's bad enough that y'all take other countries artifacts, but y'all go a step further and take it for granted!! lol!

  • And?

  • and you ought to do the right thing instead of doing the self-serving and selfish thing....

  • As to you.

  • Ofcourse.

  • Oh and the Koh-hi-noor Diamond....

  • As for raping the land, hardly....

    I come from California, the center of the environmentalist movement and sustainable living. So really...

  • this video is ridiculous Americans have stuff stolen from othercountries hiostory too.

  • INDEED!

  • what about education? with out museums people would live in ignorance

    also

    FINDER KEEPERS >= D

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  • well actually it's the museums in those countries that want those artifacts back in their collections so that the public can see their own treasures and their own history. So why don't y'all just fork 'em all over and keep what is actually yours....

  • lets concentrate of making the future/now better and stop dwelling on things that have happened and cant be changed

  • these were brought back by archaeologists. not pillaged.

  • well they can be sent back by archaeologists.

  • i'm sure there is more 'stolen goods' in american museums. no one ever owned these goods and no one wanted them apart from competitive european and american archaeologists.

  • what makes you think there's more stolen goods here in the States??

    Actually you are wrong about competitive archaeologists being the only one wanting them. For instance the Cairo museum has been spearheading the movement for returning antiquities back to their original nations where the people there can appreciate their own history.

  • off course the Egyptians have spearheaded the movement, most of the artefacts come from Egypt. they should have shown a bit more interest when they were being dug up.

    most poor Egyptian farmers in the 1800's would not no about or worry about the ancient Egyptians.

    most of these artefacts would not have been found if not for adventurous British archaeologists. no one tried to stop them.

  • We should give it all back out of good faith, we live in the age were we can read about artifacts on the Internet.

    But this is just America giving us another anti-Brit broadside.

    The fact is, Every state or prestigious museum in the world has priceless artifacts from different countries, some discovered, some bought and yes, some stolen, its not just us that have done it but we are the only one villanised for it.

  • @rudeydudey05 You've got some seroiusly priceless goods from the ole empire days though, I think some should be returned.

  • @FenianFreedomFiqhter

    I agree, we have.

    But to be fair, most were either bought from the gov or owner of the artifacts.

    Even the Greek Marbles were bought.

    Or found buried in the desert or forest.

    But like i said, we should give it all back as we live in the age of video sharing and Internet and can see the artifacts at any time. When i go to a museum or the likes, i want to see stuff from Britain, i'm not interested in stuff from China, Greece or Egypt.

  • Give us back the fucking Bayeux Tapestry.

  • i would like to say to the yanks:

    'so none of your museums have anything other than american history in?'

  • The evil empire is spain, even if was not an empire today, but what they did to Central and south america and in Catalonia, Basque Country and Galiza, Ceuta and Melilha in Morocco!

    And Canary Islands!

  • @suevialania

    STFU u parasite shit. Fuck the queen

  • every wer has got other country treasure egypt has british treasures some and every has each others and to give them back will be erasing histroical plunders and battles so fuck off u armerica wankers

  • return that Diamond to India

  • wait, didn't we spend the money finding the treasures and restoring them and looking after them. So if those countries want to pay us back for that and as we are capitalist pay a price fro all our hardwork then yes they can have there supposed lost artifacts made by people from the past before themselves.

  • They aren't stolen. Everyone with a brain knows this book is bullshit.

  • I don't see how the greek/roman artifacts or arcitecture is stolen. Seeing as the Roman empire invaded us I say it's our payment or a way of saying sorry. Besides what Museum doesn't have items or objects from all over the world. That's the whole point of a museum to have objects or items or pieces of information to educate your country on other cultures and their own. It's how knowledge is passed on.

  • american muesums have frence artifacts

  • question , if you hate us stealing stuff. give back our fucking language , i suppose you would be too dumb to be bilingual , my mistake.

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  • Well allow me to retort.

    We speak American-English. And 2/3 of the native speakers of English live here in the US. So in fact, it is OUR language.

    Second, a lot of us are bilingual. So let me ask, are you Brits bi??? LOL!

    And let me finish off with this. I love you crazy Brits, but you guys being klepto is what puts the rest of us on edge...so when you guys do come to visit, let's just say we'll be keeping an eye on our stuff...:))

  • Well Greeks speak greek last time i checked...they dont have your language..so why not give them back whatever you took from them!

  • here, here potsiiscool. Why can't Greece reclaim all of its ancient historical artifacts? You are absolutely correct. This whole idea of "taking langauge" is utter crap anyway.

    People cannot steal language, as language can be spread throughout, and not lose its value as a mode of communication. But cultural treasures are rare and priceless.

  • exactly...and greeks can also play the language card since most medical terms are greek

  • sure and Greek civilization set the stage for Western Civilization as a whole. So yes, we can go around and around arguing...

    But I do think you guys have the right to expect your artifacts back in your own museums. :))

  • thx...plus the only argument the british had was that we wouldn't take good care of the artifacts...And now we have a brand new museum right under the acropolis...

  • Well..I don't see why Greeks wouldn't take care of them. The fact that they represent your ancient civilization, would do the opposite, it would provide incentive for Greek archaelogists and historians to treat them with greater care.