THE FALSE CLAIMS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM OVER THE PARTHENON MARBLES
The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports has called the claims of the British Museum that the Sculptures were ‘lying in the ruins of the Parthenon’, which was where Lord Elgin retrieved them, as unhistorical. However the undisputable archaeological evidence shows that the ‘marbles’ were sawn off the face of the temple. It is pure fiction that most of the statues, removed by Lord Elgin, were found ‘in the rubble’ around the monument.
The British Museum also claims that most of the Parthenon freeze had already been destroyed long before Lord Elgin arrived in Greece and therefore the reunion was never going to happen. It also confirmed that in their care the sculptures are very well preserved. Greece also reminded the UK that "the only antiquities that Greece claims are the Sculptures of the Parthenon, because on the one hand they were stolen in the way they were stolen and on the other hand, because they are an organic and integral unit with the Parthenon itself, which is the symbol of Western Civilization. Greece is not claiming anything else”.
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