It was the centrepiece of an ambitious building programme on the acropolis of athens.
British museum greek marbles.
The parthenon marbles a major money making display at the british museum have been the subject of an ongoing dispute between greece and the uk.
Sculptures which form part of the elgin marbles taken from the parthenon in athens greece over 200 years ago on display at the british museum in london england.
Mendoni said saturday that the marbles were loot and greece would never recognise the british museum s claim to the friezes.
Graham barclay bwp.
Greece has been campaigning for three decades for their return.
Advocates of the british museum s position also point out that the marbles in britain receive about 6 million visitors per year as opposed to 1 5 million visitors to the acropolis museum.
The removal of the marbles to greece would therefore they argue significantly reduce the number of people who have the opportunity to visit the marbles.
A british museum spokeswoman confirmed that it allows a stolen goods tour run by an external guide.
The parthenon sculptures in the british museum.
The director of the british museum has provoked anger by suggesting the removal of the parthenon marbles from greece in the 19th century could be seen as a creative act.
The current britishmuseum director invokes revisionist history and discredited museological principles as the british museum rules out loaning parthenon marbles to greece instead insisting.
She said the elgin marbles were acquired legally with the approval of the ottoman.
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The parthenon was built as a temple dedicated to the goddess athena.
The 2 500 year old sculptures were illegally torn off the parthenon in the 1800s taken to england and sold to the museum in 1816 by lord elgin.