Should The British Museum Return The Elgin Marbles To Greece
Although greeks have been petitioning for the marbles return since 1832 and opinion polls have found that the british public is largely in favor of reuniting the sculptures in athens there are no active talks between the museum and greek officials.
Should the british museum return the elgin marbles to greece. Two of my major obsessions punctuation and greek came together recently when president xi jinping of china voiced his support for the return to greece of the parthenon marbles also known as. July 11 this year is the 200th anniversary of the act of parliament that saw the uk buy 2 500 year old sculptures taken from the parthenon from the then earl of elgin. Moral solution is to return the marbles the british museum claims that the removal of the objects saved them from destruction as they were not being protected at the time. The british museum has repeatedly refused to comply with all such demands for repatriation.