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The Elgin Marbles or The Parthenon Sculptures: what is the solution?

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The Parthon and Sculptors Are Now Owned by the British Museum

I think we have reached a bit of an impasse until that changes. The legality of how the Father and the Stocks was removed is highly dubious. But, in fact, they are now owned by the British Museum. And I think were there to be a worthy part of the sculptures to be loaned or deposited at the Acropolis. They would be being loaned and deposited. And also objects would come in our direction. For Greeks not to do that would effectively make them pariahs in terms of cultural exchange.

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