Last month the honeyman museum in london said it would return 72 objects, including 12 benine brontes, to nigeria. It's part of a much larger trend about the restitution of artifacts and feels particularly pertinent in the british museum. If you turn your back on the rosetta stone, if you walk forward about 50 paces and back 250 years, you find yourself right in front of the parthenon marbles. They are the marbles that lord elgin chiselled from the front of theparthenon in 18 o one. And they were brought back to london, and they instantly became the subject of very bitter debate.