Finders Keepers
Culture • April 2009 • Views: 256
To whom do the great works of antiquity - or of any other past culture for that matter - actually belong? Does title reside in the modern-day peoples on whose terrain the objects were found? Or can there be a wider, indeed loftier, form of proprietorship, whereby artefacts of great beauty, rarity or interest can become the common property of humankind, held in a form of universal trusteeship by the great museums that have come to possess them?