Quiz · Who Owns the Past?

Question 1What is the main question this passage explores?

Who has the right to keep ancient objects taken from other lands How archaeologists should date ancient pots and coins Why treasure hunters steal coins from old sites Which museum in the world has the largest collection

Question 2According to the speaker, what happens when a treasure hunter tears a coin from its context?

It becomes more valuable to collectors It becomes just a coin, stripped of most of its stories It can be dated much more accurately It must be returned to Greece immediately

Question 3What solution does the speaker suggest at the end of the talk?

Emptying every museum and returning all objects Keeping all treasures locked away from the public Honest partnerships that let objects teach us where they were born Selling the objects to pay for new excavations