Do you believe that the Tutankhamen reasures should be returned to its rightful home in Egypt?
The King Tut treasures belong to Egypt and are permanently housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. They are touring the world (in cooperation with the Egyptian government) as the museum is updated to better display the artifacts to the public and insure that they are cared for according to accepted museum industry standards. If the question is, should other Egyptian artifacts be returned to Egypt? Then that is far more problemactic. There actually is a very slippery slope to this. Often ancient Egyptian artifacts are considered works of art. If you require that Egyptian artifacts are returned to their place of origin, then what is to stop every nation in the world to ask for the return for their historic artifacts. If you say that all should return, then what about artwork like statues and paintings? Do you put an age requirement on it, or is all artwork to be shipped to its place of origin? Who sets the age requirement of the artwork? This is a very difficult question that the museum
