The family of retired British geologist Jim Fitton has launched a petition asking for the Foreign Office to intervene in his case.
Fitton was on an organized archaeology tour earlier this spring when he took the shards from the Sumerian site of Eridu, an unexcavated landmark in southern Iraq where one of Mesopotamia’s earliest cities once stood. Pocketing the objects as souvenirs of his trip, he insisted he did not know he was breaking the law.
Tourist, having 30+ pieces that happens to be more than 3000-5000 years old (depending where he found them). Tourists admire things, buy things, don’t just shove 30+ pieces in their suitcases and board a plane with them!
The French and the British always stealing art and cultural heritage from other countries. Maybe it's time to start paying reparations.
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