User Reviews

I can understand nations wanting their ancient irreplaceable treasure returned. However, many of those treasures would have been destroyed or lost if the British had not stolen them. For example, the Nazis stole many art works from nations they conqurered and a large percentage have never been found. They were either destroyed during the fighting or ended up in private collections where they are still located. I believe that many European countries secretly shipped some of their most valued treasures to Britain just prior to or early on in WWII in order to safeguard them. These were of course returned. And look at what IS did to ancient statues. Just blew them up.

Ignore all the 1 star reviews if you're actually interested in the topic of looted artifacts. From the comments I've read in other places it would seem most of the blind negativity towards this show comes from mostly ignorant and insecure people who frankly don't seem to care about history at all.

The show is well produced and well researched, they go across the entire world just to get the viewpoints from experts both from the original cultures and the places where an item is kept.

The main message is this: The history of looted and 'stolen' artifacts and items that have deep cultural and historical significance is often deeply complicated, and often the question of where they truly belong is just as complicated.

The history of imperialism everywhere has historically been very bloody, we see this all the time where there is war and strife and where one culture seeks to prove themselves as superior. The survivors of the culture viewed as 'inferior' are just that, a culture and they want to know and keep their history just like everyone else, and in my opinion, everyone deserves that much.

Great show, charming host, very educational and important for the discussion of this difficult topic.