There is a movement afoot to raid museums.

Zahi Hawass, bane of the “aliens made the pyramids” nonsense—-made it a pet project to get Egyptian antiquities back home—only to have them raided after Mubarak fell.

Do NOT go to Egypt—-the horror stories I have heard.

Have an 8.23-gram slice of a stony iron-nickel meteorite from the Atacama Desert, retrieved in 1922.
“Olivine crystals embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.” About the size of a domino, on a platinum chain, highly polished. (Har–the only smell I ever noticed was my wife’s perfume!)

And a 3-gram “Olivine-Bronzite Chondrite” stony meteorite from Zacatecas, Mexico. Fell (sky burst) December 15, 1978, retrieved July 15th, 1979. Looks like a piece of roundish puffed black lava. With “excellent fusion-crust.”

I got to sniff (in a very non-Biden-like way) a sliced iron meteorite. It had a very intense “blood” smell. Instantly realized I’d just inhaled iron atoms from space that are billions of years old. Then thought, but hey, the iron atoms in my own blood, and all the other atoms in me, are just as old, and also from space. It was a strangely moving experience.