The Empire

The Empire They came saw and conquered and plundered other nations heritage as trophies voices of dissent drowned. The elite saw themselves as the educated elite wrote learned books about statues they had purloined also told of what significance it had. For the people robbed of their symbols. The pilferers became ennobled. Sometimes theft pays. Most of the stolen culture ended up in a museum, so the people could wonder and be proud, although some had an afterthought. Now that we live an enlightened time the British Museum is no longer proud of their possessions keep sending some cultural icons back to the countries, they were taken from.