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

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Restitution of the Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum has done is really quite magnificent, but just with fragments that Elgin left behind. And it would be extraordinary to see these wonderful pieces of sculpture reunited. You literally have arms in Athens and heads in Britain of the same centaur or warrior. That in itself feels like an act of vandalism that they ought to be reunited.

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