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Trafficked Lebanese Antiquities: Can They Be Repatriated from European Museums?

In this essay, I review the issue of repatriation from the Lebanese perspective. I examine the history and context of how artifacts from Lebanon were illegally exported and present one example where the objects have been returned. It is alarming that, even in the twenty-first century, Western politicians and curators do not want treasures returned to their countries of origin as they have become part of the local heritage of the Western people.