How much of the privately owned collections of rate art, historical manuscripts and other valuable relics of the past ended up in private hands due to pillaging these works from conquered territories relative to being originally produced for private purposes?

by robe445
Searocksandtrees

hi! it might be worth x-posting this to one of the archaeology subs, e.g. /r/Archaeology, /r/AskAnthropology, /r/AskSocialScience, or /r/AskScience