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Acropolis now? 2:24pm on 20 Jun 2009 "In terms of heritage, our own arguments are as strong as those of Greece"

Please spare me.The sculptures have been in Britain's possesion for how long?? like 2 centuries.well guess what...prior to their abduction by Elgin the Marbles were in Greece for 2.3 millenia.

For 2300 years the Marbles were to be found in their rightfull place:Athens.

As a Greek living in London and having visited the British Museum three times I was disguisted by the cultural theft that I witnessed there.

Greece has answered in the best possible way and has countered any claims the British museum might have regarding safekeeping,pollution,climate,seismicity or whatever excuses they have for not returning them.

Britain has two options either stay silent and be ridiculed internationally by stuburnly refusing to return the Marbles or acknowledge that Greece is today in the position to have the Marbles back home kept in a STATE OF THE ART museum of an excellent international standard making the new museum probably the best and most modern Museum in the world.

As for the fact that allegedly the Marbles were legally taken from Greece, I should remind everyone who are ignorant that Greece proclaimed independence in 1821 from the Ottoman Empire.

Greece in 1817 was under the Ottoman yoke and was in no position to negotiate or dictate anything.From the day one of the formation of the modern Greek state we have been asking the Marbles back home and we always get the same responses..... That we are unable as a country or nation to safekeep the Marbles.

I think its time for the British Museum to wake up and be mature enough to acknoledge that the world is moving forward and so is Greece and at last return the Marbles to the rightfull heirs of Ancient Greek culture.

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