CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Repatriation is the return of stolen or looted cultural materials to their countries of origin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rosetta Stone The stone was originally taken from Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte, who is widely credited for opening up the country to the rest of Europe and fueling “Egyptomania” in the 19th century, according to Okeke-Ugulu. The British then took the Rosetta Stone after they defeated the French in 1815.

Detailed explanation-3: -The largest offender of stolen antiquities is none other than the British Museum. The British Museum’s collection includes some of the Benin bronzes, the Maqdala collection, a plethora of real human remains and much more.

Detailed explanation-4: -There’s literally a British law forbidding it; the British Museum Act 1963 was created to make it illegal to give looted and nicked treasures back to the people we looted and nicked them from.