Occupiers' title to cultural property: Nineteenth-century removal of Egyptian artifacts

This note examines the deficiencies of British and French legal claims to artifacts taken during the nineteenth century when Egypt was under Ottoman rule. It then examines the modern regime for solving these claims, as well as far preserving artifacts. This regime is centered around the concepts of cultural nationalism and cultural internationalism. Finally, it proposes an equitable solution based on a managed market for cultural property which would involve narrowing the class of artifacts that should be repatriated and banned from exportation.