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New Acropolis Museum highlights missing marbles

Athens :: Greece | 5 months ago

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Athena.Britain's envoy, Lord Elgin, pried them off the building in the early 1800s while Greece was still an unwilling part of the Ottoman Empire. Facing bankruptcy, he eventually sold the artworks to the British Museum, where they have been displayed...

Tags: Greece, New Acropolis Museum, Parthenon Temple, Parthenon Marbles, Elgin Marbles, British Museum