Mar 21 2008
Museums around the world have in recent years started
Γράφει ο/η Θεόφιλος Δουμάνης   
21.03.08
Returning ancient artefacts to their countries of origin and have tightened checks on acquisitions to avoid buying objects that were illegally excavated or smuggled abroad.

The British Museum which acquired the marbles in 1816 refuses to return them to Greece on the ground that its statutes do not allow it to do so. Britain has also argued for many years that the marbles were better preserved in London than in Athens' polluted air, but Greece says this argument is now obsolete given the completion of the new museum, where an empty gallery awaits the famous sculptures.
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