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The us congress has waded into the ongoing row over the elgin marbles and called for their return to greece.

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In practice the term is commonly used to refer to the stone objects he gathered an official greek website prefers looted from. They were originally part of the temple of the parthenon and other buildings on the acropolis of athens. Lord elgin a staunch patriot had turned down lucrative offers from other governments for the treasures and argued all along that the marbles would add luster to britain s imperial image. The greek government is right to seek the return of the parthenon marbles which were illegally removed by agents of thomas bruce 7th earl of elgin 200 years ago.

The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas. 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. Initially i do not believe that elgin had the legal authority to remove the marble statues from the parthenon. Additionally elgin s supposed motivation behind removing them the lack of the ability to conserve the works is now invalid.

In a letter to the prime minister eighteen members of the house of representatives. The parthenon marbles greek. The elgin marbles. Why returning the elgin marbles to greece would be madness save the parthenon sculptures have been on display in the british museum for more than 200 years credit.

The elgin marbles a collection of stone sculptures and inscriptions more properly known as the parthenon sculptures was acquired by lord elgin in athens greece between 1801 and 1805 and today lives in london s british museum.