(June 1, 2022 at 6:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 7, 2022 at 12:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: If you've found something like this, would you give it to a museum or would you keep it?
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/325-1...ique-coins
Under Italian law, the finder of any artifact more than 50 years old that has ‘artistic value’ must turn it over to the proper authorities. The finder and the own of the land are entitled to a reward figured as a percentage of what the market price would be. Failure to hand it is makes you subject to hefty finds and prison sentences.
So, yeah, I’d hand it in.
Boru
And what if someone melts it into gold bars or bracelets or golden lumps and sells it like that? Would the authorities be able to catch him?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"