Then Malta caught wind of the proffering. ADAD“There are some artifacts that are important to Maltese natural heritage and which ended up abroad and deserve to be retrieved,” Herrera said, according to the Maltese newspaper. I am determined to direct a change in this attitude.”But Malta appeared to reverse course Tuesday on its plans to reclaim the tooth. ADAD“I doubt this was how Kensington Palace thought the story would go,” wrote Chris Ship, royal editor of ITV News on Monday. Britain’s Tatler magazine said the incident “may be the first diplomatic row over a shark tooth in history.”A “megalodon tooth costs $40 on eBay,” tweeted Matthew Caruana Galizia — whose mother, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed when a bomb exploded in her car in 2017 after her investigations revealed high-level corruption.

Source: Washington Post September 29, 2020 16:12 UTC