Time the Elgin marbles returned the Greece.

They have nothing to do with British cultural history.

As Lord Byron said in 1816, ‘ they were vandalised and looted’.

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Convivial · 26-30, F

You left out they were preserved too...

SW-User

@Convivial Yes, I forgot the appalling air pollution damage in the nineteenth century. And the hacking done in the so called restoration in 1937. Itself an act of vandalisation.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@SW-User I was thinking more of the war going on between Greece and Turkey at that stage...I believe the Parthenon, from where the marbles were taken, was being used at the time to store Greek ammunition.... But I do think it's time to give them back...