Readers respond to Boris Johnson’s refusal to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, and the legacy of colonial looting
The Marbles WILL come home. In the meantime, however, they will probably tolerate more defacements from people who brag that they own them but know absolutely nothing of what they mean & how to preserve them. How pathetic for a once great British Empire!
And if Greece starts asking back everything that's been stolen from its grounds for years & years from other countries, there'll be no end! We're asking for the Parthenon Marbles EXACTLY because of their high significance to Greece's culture, past & future.
I undersrand, of course.. Once they start returning everything they're stolen from around the world, there will be nothing left in the British Museum for the British to boast about...
The British stand by their decision NOT to return the Marbles to their rightful owners, impudently calling the Parthenon Marbles the 'Elgin Marbles'.
UNESCO has included the Parthenon Marbles to the World Heritage Sites & has been decisevely in favour of Greece asking them back.
The British Museum used bleach to clean them!!! They utterly destroyed part of them. I suggest the British study history a little bit more, apart from their 'imperial past' one, in the name of which they thousands of crimes were committed globally.
Some years ago the British Museum decided to 'clean' the Marbles because, they said, their colour had turned yellow over the years. 😂😂😂The colour of the Parthenon Marbles is yellowish because this is the colour of the famous Pentelikon marble used!
Ignorant of the significance of the Temple of the Parthenon & disrespectful of what it represented for Greece, he even went as far as to 'rip out' the bust of the Parthenon, thus causing irreparable damage to the Temlpe.
Lord Elgin may have been an aristocrat of the British Empire, quite important to it, but he's nothing but a common thief for the Greeks all around the world.
If nothing else, such a claim is an insult to your very own Lord Byron who fought alongside the Greeks and died in Messolοggi as well as, again your very own, George Finlay(History Of The Greek Revolution).
When you 'purchase' something from a conqueror(Greece was then, and remained for 400 years, in thrall to the Ottoman Empire) you can't claim that your purchase was legal.
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Marbles nicked, in need of return.
Maybe those belong to Egypt too.
They were never yours to begin with.
Regardless of what Greece will do with them, UK should return them to its rightfull owner & the place they were made. There is a museum next to the Parthenon waiting for them.
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