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Reunited with the remaining pieces and create a
whole image of the Parthenon’s sculptures- Elena Korka- Archaeologist, Greek
Ministry of Culture, conceptually, historically
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Neil McGregor- Director of the British Museum
counters that half of the Marbles were destroyed and thus it would never give
an accurate and whole image of the Parthenon’s sculptures
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Building a new state of the art museum near the
Acropolis to house the sculptures left behind by Elgin and other antiquities
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Displays the Marbles in a similar fashion to how
it was seen on the Parthenon, sense of recreation of the Parthenon
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Gaping hole left as a final plead to the British
Museum to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece
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Some believe that by building the Museum above
an important archaeological site, evidence is being destroyed
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Greek government has suggested that the Marbles
being returned as an indefinite loan and British Museum upholding stewardship
over them, British Museum refuses
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Some believe that there would be similar demands
all over the world for return of sculpture but others believe that there are no
other sculptures that belong to an important place such as the Parthenon