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> The person who dug it up and sold it didn't really have an inherent right to it. They just found it. I don't get it. Why wouldn't a person who found it have

• ricardobeat 5y ago
  If you travel to Pompeii right now, “find” a Roman vase and bring it home, did you have a right to it?
• theshrike79 5y ago
  If I go and dig up a fresh grave right now and steal all the valuables, do I have a "right" to those? How old does the grave, in your opinion, have to be for me to get that right?
• hef19898 5y ago
  In most places, you don't. Even if the land is yours, the state has the ownership rights. You can get a decompensation so. Which sucks in cases were they find some roman ruins when digging the basement of your house... But then you can also find WW2 bombs were I live, luckily, they didn't find neither under our house.
• rhplus 5y ago
  Not Italy, but as an example, the legal process for the UK is described here: https://www.gov.uk/treasure https://www.gov.uk/treasure I'd assume other European countries have similar laws and processes.