She never takes my money

[Bereta_Eder]

The year is 1821. Greeks are fighting for their independence. In Athens, they besiege the Acropolis, a stronghold of the Turkish occupiers. As the siege grinds on, the Turks' ammunition runs short. They begin to dismantle sections of the Parthenon, prying out the 2,300-year-old lead clamps and melting them down for bullets. The Greek fighters, horrified at this defacement of their patrimony, send the Turks a supply of bullets. Better to arm their foes, they decide, than to let the ancient temple come to harm.

http://www.museum-security.org/reports/004199.html

you are ignorant and I bet damn hairy dinodocy.



to supply you with info the worse damage done to the parthenon was by an italian bombardment. (which shows how much italiannavy generals respected culture )

[Bereta_Eder]

but i let you figure out when that was done and by whom.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov



I suspect they will eventually be returned, albeit some time in the future.

maybe maybe not.


the problem is not the british people but the museum and the fear that thei return would open up pandora's box for petitions of return from egypt ect etc and further petitions for other items and from other museums as well.

[Bereta_Eder]

nto to mention that the most valuable artifact of the britishmuseum will be gone of course.

[DinoDoc]

You've lost your marbles. Get over it. Maybe you can talk them into providing you with a cement replica.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by paiktis22
The year is 1821. Greeks are fighting for their independence. In Athens, they besiege the Acropolis, a stronghold of the Turkish occupiers. As the siege grinds on, the Turks' ammunition runs short. They begin to dismantle sections of the Parthenon, prying out the 2,300-year-old lead clamps and melting them down for bullets. The Greek fighters, horrified at this defacement of their patrimony, send the Turks a supply of bullets. Better to arm their foes, they decide, than to let the ancient temple come to harm.

http://www.museum-security.org/reports/004199.html

you are ignorant and I bet damn hairy dinodocy.



to supply you with info the worse damage done to the parthenon was by an italian bombardment. (which shows how much italiannavy generals respected culture )

Nobody accused the Greeks of being responsible for the damage to the Parthenon. Just that it WAS damaged by someone, so the marbles were better off being elsewhere.

As fo the BM losing its most valuable artifact...who can lay claim to the Rosetta Stone?

[Bereta_Eder]

It was damaged by looters and the bombardment. However that was a facade of the temple and not the parthenon marbles. So unless elgin took the whole temple off the ground I dont see how this helped

[Bereta_Eder]

also i believe it is a bit hypocritical to attribute to elgin virtues he never had such as the intend to protect the marbles.

he simply had them removed to adorn his garden at scotland since he thought they were cute. and when he died he donated them to the british museum.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by paiktis22
also i believe it is a bit hypocritical to attribute to elgin virtues he never had such as the intend to protect the marbles.

Who ascribed such virtues to him?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
You've lost your marbles. Get over it. Maybe you can talk them into providing you with a cement replica.

what would be the use of that?

and why should we get over it?

Who ascribed such virtues to him?

coming to think about it, noone - you're right

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
As fo the BM losing its most valuable artifact...who can lay claim to the Rosetta Stone?

Egypt, of course.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Egypt, of course.

Why not France?

[Bereta_Eder]

Cetaintly not Mississipi at any rate.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Egypt, of course.

Bah, current Egyptians don't have relations with ancient ones!

[Bereta_Eder]

Don't know about that. But I remember when visiting the Louvre at Paris, whose basements are filled with all sorts of antiquities there was an Egyptian who kept saying "thieves".