The United States Should Return Cultural Artifacts Of Their Culture

Historic relics are the treasures of history and culture, which symbolized the development of nations and the progress of human civilization. Similarly, the cultural is a symbol of national identity and state’s spiritual home. This shows how significant to a country of artifacts. With a long history of thousands years and its brilliant civilization, artifacts have developed many forms of different culture, which have exerted profound and fat-reaching influence on different countries. Therefore, artifacts, which are surviving after thousands years are crucial for a country. As more and more artifacts are found during developing economy such as mining, and people pay more attention to this topic of art repatriation. More controversy also appeared

Many of artifacts in current countries were stolen. According to the electronic source“The cultural artifacts should be returned to their own country of origin”, many countries, which keep cultural artifacts were stolen from their home quondam countries and kept unlawfully.(2011, para.1). It is hard for a country to realize their ancient culture clearly even could not distinguish whether they are representative artifacts of their culture. Artifacts also were difficult to keep and many countries got them during war. (“Artifacts”, 2011, para.1). In other words, returning artifacts will protect countries’ right. It is a country’s right to take back their artifacts and required of current countries to return them instead of keeping them illegally. (“Artifacts”, 2011, para. 4). Every country has to be respected in the whole world whatever the level of economic. According to Bell Malcolm, a professor emeritus in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia, returning artifacts to origin country also prevents unlawful digging that could break ruins of ancient items.(Bell, 2010, para.4). Many grave robbers were found recently and archaeologists were struggling to keep up with looters, who often ransack ancient sites before the experts can get to them. Every country has to observe the rules of the whole world and repatriation is a way to embody this

Artifacts have special cultural value. Many artifacts contained the non-material circumstance that had their own culture’s tough characteristic and they symbolized the culture and historical of a country.(“Artifacts”, 2011, para.1). The worth of artifacts inflects a country’s or a nation’s culture developments. Values, esthetic interests, and economic conditions in its period. Lots of artifacts had the extraordinary meaning of a nation and the nation would lose record of a part of ancient culture if artifacts changed their primary environment.（Bell, 2010, para.2). Similarly, Artifacts in origin country are convenient for people to recognize and study. Artifacts had international identity and people had access to recognize what is their culture.(“Artifacts”, 2011, para.2). Cultural relics are carriers of civilization and the materializing cultural. Also, it was easier for foreign people who traveled to another country to learn and understand their culture more effective if artifacts were returned to origin place.(“Artifacts”, 2011, para.1). Ancient people create abundant culture and lots of them are reflected in artifacts, it is a significant way to record the process of a country’s culture with keep artifacts in origin