The collective Looty, whose mission is to “reloot” heritage items, doesn’t steal pieces from museums. Instead the group scans them in 3-D and makes them available as N.F.T.s in the metaverse.
Recently, some Western museums, under public pressure, have begun repatriating pieces that had come into their collections via looting. The process can be slow. In February, the U.S. announced that it was returning seventy-seven Yemeni artifacts—eventually. For now, owing to Yemen’s civil war, the Smithsonian was holding on to them. “It just happens in dribs and drabs,” Chidi Nwaubani, a Nigerian English product designer, said recently. Mostly, he added, “They’re, like, ‘Sorry, not sorry.
For the Rosetta-stone heist, they’d invited along the Egyptologist Monica Hanna. The stone was excavated by the French and intercepted as a spoil of war by the British some two centuries ago. Officially, Egypt has never asked for it back; in September, Hanna launched a petition demanding that the Egyptian Prime Minister reclaim it—plus sixteen other artifacts. She arrived at the museum in all black, with red-rimmed glasses, red boots, and red nails.
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