My advice is to package it in a plain brown wrapper and mail it to the nearest Italian embassy - with no return address.The export of antiquities is now heavily controlled by law in almost all countries and by the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
+1Uh oh.
Antiquities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMy advice is to package it in a plain brown wrapper and mail it to the nearest Italian embassy - with no return address.
Like I said, I found it in 1969...
After long and tense negotiations and several scuttled agreements, Peruvian president Alan Garcia and Yale University have announced that a collection of over 4,000 Incan antiquities taken from Machu Picchu between 1911 and 1915 by professor Hiram Bingham III will return to the South American country.
Translation: "Move along, nothing to see here, sorry to have [-]brought this up[/-] bothered you..."Glad I asked, just a neat souvenir of no significance to anyone but me...
FIFYTranslation: "Move along, nothing to see here, sorry to have [-]brought this up[/-] bothered you..."
Threadjack: Hiram Bingham III was descended from Hawaii's first group of missionaries and grew up local. He graduated from Punahou (admittedly a few decades before Obama) and helped Peru bring the world's attention to Machu Picchu. Although by today's standards he was plundering the cultural antiquities, by Peru's early 20th-century standards he finally brought to fruition a project (and a huge pile of revenue) that they'd been pursuing for over 20 years.After long and tense negotiations and several scuttled agreements, Peruvian president Alan Garcia and Yale University have announced that a collection of over 4,000 Incan antiquities taken from Machu Picchu between 1911 and 1915 by professor Hiram Bingham III will return to the South American country.
And here I was wondering what kind of artifact you might have found in Las Vegas.