Greek campaigners believe the carvings should be returned to athens and claim that they have been irreparably damaged by cleaning at the museum in the 1930s.
Why the elgin marbles must saty in the uk.
Two hundred years ago the uk bought sculptures from the parthenon from the earl of elgin it s time to send them back and here s why.
By luke hawker published.
The marbles suffered a great deal of damage in their couple of thousand years before elgin s arrival from the parthenon s various conversions into a christian church and then an ottoman mosque.
γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants.
The elgin marbles should remain in the uk and not be returned to greece despite an intervention by officials in washington according to a poll of express co uk readers.
Voices seven reasons to return the elgin marbles to greece.
The parthenon marbles greek.
They were originally part of the temple of the parthenon and other buildings on the acropolis of athens.