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Parthenon Marbles: Fundraising initiative to repay the £35,000 used by UK Parliament to buy them from Elgin

March 27, 2023 Archeology, Culture, FEATURED 1

The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek community are seeking to raise £35,000 to symbolically repay the UK Parliament. The amount is the one the UK Parliament paid to Lord Elgin to buy the Marbles. Fundraising – Press Release Over two hundred years ago …

British Museum claims Sculptures were “in the rubble” around Parthenon

May 23, 2022 Archeology, Culture, FEATURED 13

Many of the Parthenon Sculptures removed by Lord Elgin’s agents were found “in the rubble” around the monument, they were not removed violently,” claimed Dr Jonathan Williams, deputy director of the British Museum during the annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on the Promotion of the Return of Cultural Heritage …

Queen Elizabeth’s statement on Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece

October 14, 2019 Archeology, Culture 1

It was beginning of August when Australian activist Mary Drost wrote to Queen Elizabeth asking the British Monarch to intervene for the return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Three weeks later, Drost received a reply. It is the first registered statement by Queen Elizabeth on the Parthenon Marbles. According to …

“Greece must recognize ownership of Parthenon Marbles before loan,” says British Museum

September 3, 2019 Archeology, Culture 9

Greece must acknowledge the British Museum ’s ownership of the Parthenon Marbles before its Trustees consider whether or not to lend them to Greece. This is what a museum representative told the London correspondent of daily Ta Nea. “A precondition for any loan would be an acceptance of ownership of …

Turkish researchers: No Sultan’s edict allowing Lord Elgin to loot the Acropolis

March 28, 2019 Archeology 1

Two Turkish researchers have debunked the British claim that the Parthenon Marbles were a gift by the Ottoman Sultan Selim III to Lord Elgin. The Sultan did not issue an edict (ferman) allowing Elgin to loot the Acropolis, the researches have found. The Parthenon Marbles have been at the center …

“We don’t return, we don’t lend” Parthenon Marbles, says British Museum

January 26, 2019 Archeology, Culture 1

“We don’t return, we don’t lend the Parthenon Marbles, Greece is not the legitimate owner,” said Hartwig Fischer, German historian and Director of the British Museum since 2016. Fischer has been actively involved in the debate over the last few years on the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, …

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