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(Elgin) Marbles:

This page has not been updated since June 2003. This does not mean that we have changed our position about the return of the Parthenon Marbles!
Updated information about this matter is available at http://www.elginism.com/

British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles
These pages contain detailed information on the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, together with the case for their return to Athens, Greece.

Parhenon Marbles & Lord Elgin website

The sad story of the Parthenon Marbles

Will Britain Loose it's Marbles???

Deep Frieze: Cold War over the Parthenon Marbles
"For 48 hours the herbivores became carnivores, biting large lumps out of each other's reputations; it was very Darwinian."
"Retentionists" and "restitutionalists" locked horns last December when the British Museum organised an international symposium on the controversial cleaning of the Parthenon Marbles in the 1930s. (read on)

The Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles, by Epaminondas Vranopoulos

• June 16, 2003
  - Parthenon Marbles: Sharp end of civilisation

• May 29, 2003
  - Greece and Canada: Elgin Marbles trip up PM in Greece

• May 26, 2003
  - Parthenon Marbles: Artist says British Museum does not know left from right

• May 21, 2003
  - Parthenon: Museum project ‘to go ahead’

• May 19, 2003
  - Greek high court rules against new Acropolis museum

• April 11 - 12, 2003
  - Elgin Marbles: Centerpiece of new museum?

• April 9, 2003
  - Greece Repeats Demand for Return of 'Elgin Marbles'

• April 7, 2003
  - Greece makes its case for Elgin Marbles at New York exhibit

• March 26, 2003
  - UN agency offers to help Greece, UK in dispute over Parthenon Marbles

• March 18, 2003
  - Marbles are back in play

• March 14, 2003
  - Parthenon Marbles dispute takes a new turn at Athens conference (Tom Flynn)
  - MEDIA STATEMENT FROM THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE RESTITUTION OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES.
  - Speech by The Rt Hon Lord David Owen CH at an Economist Conference on "The Parthenon Marbles In view of the 2004 Olympiad"

• February 27, 2003
  MEDIA STATEMENT FROM THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE RESTITUTION OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES
  . Marbles Committee respond to British Museum "never"
  Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Chairman of the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, has written to the Director of the British Museum about his statement that says the Marbles "will never return to Athens" and his offer of a "Virtual Reality" display of the Parthenon.
  A copy of the letter is attached. The letter also calls on the Trustees of the British Museum to pursue their discussions with the Greeks on this issue under an agreed and open agenda and with a sense of urgency

• February 26, 2003
  - Notes on point by point analysis of MacGregor's (director British Museum) statement
  - Stolen Dunhuang Cave relics will stay at the British Museum

• February 23, 2003
  - British Museum deliberately misleading about its contacts with Athens;
  Greece Should Never See Elgin Marbles - Museum Boss MacGregor

• January 28, 2003
  - Science reunites Elgin Marbles

• January 27, 2003
  - The Elgin Marbles and the Olympics - two icons of the culture of the loser

• January 25, 2003
  - Medallists back return of marbles to Parthenon
  - Elgin Marbles Debate Could Heat Up

• January 8 - 12, 2003
  - The flap over the Parthenon plunder has the world’s great museums in a stew

• January 4, 2003
  - Elgin Marbles make 'virtual' return

• December 31, 2002
  - Is it altruism or the fear of losing their marbles?

• December 22 - 26, 2002
  - Reassembling Sundered Antiquities (about the museum directors declaration against recuperation of 'stolen' antiquities)
  - Copying the Marbles
  - Breakages and bungling at British Museum (artefacts from ancient Greece and Rome are being mislaid, broken and poorly protected in British Museum)

• December 12 - 15, 2002
  - U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art
  - Greece Affirms Limits to Elgin Marbles Claim
  - Italian loan puts marbles pressure on British Museum
  - Re: U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art (Warren Ruder)
  - Press Release ICOM - repatriation of Cultural Property
  - Re: U.S., European museums support British Museum stand on disputed Greek art (Clifford Scheiner)
  - The directors of 18 European and American art museums go too far! They are impolite and unjust (Cultural Heritagewatch, China)
  

• December 10, 2002
  - Museums thwart artefact claims

• December 5 - 9, 2002
  - The fate of the Parthenon sculptures in Athens

• November 10 - 13, 2002
  - Ray of light for Marbles?
  - Greek minister on Marbles mission
  - British Museum considers Elgin Marbles 'swap' to reduce £6m debt
  - Museum sinks hope of marbles deal; Greek culture minister fobbed off with tea but no sympathy

• November 9, 2002
  - The saga of the missing marbles: Greece's hopes of forcing Britain to return the Parthenon Marbles by 2004 have hit a new snag

• November 4, 2002
  - Keep the marbles in Britain

• November 2, 2002
  - Elgin Marbles letter for sale

• October 23 - 28, 2002
  - Losing marbles acceptable (only 7 per cent of Brittons oppose return Parthenon Marbles).

• October 7, 2002
  - Italy to loan Greece 'lost' antiquity

• October 2, 2002
  - Fragment of Greek history to reignite row over Marbles

• July 30, 2002
  - Marbles Lost and Found (In the Parthenon's Shadow, an Old Grievance Gets Put on a Pedestal)

• July 16, 2002
  - Experts demand halt to 'Elgin Marbles museum'
  - Vandals on the Acropolis

• May 1, 2002
  - Restorers to use modern lasers to clean ancient marbles (Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum)

• April 28, 2002
  - Parthenon 2004 action launched by Belgium senators supporting the return of the Elgin marbles to Greece.

• March 25, 2002
  - Athens museum awaits disputed Elgin marble
  ( television poll several years ago showed 90% of British citizens favored the marbles' return)

• March 22, 2002
  - "Speaking with Greece's Minister of Culture"
  THE PARTHENON SCULPTURES

• January 24, 2002
  - Britain May 'Own' Elgin Marbles but Greece Wants Loan

• January 17, 2002
  - Museum mistrusts Greeks seeking loans

• January 15, 2002
  - New campaign to send Elgin Marbles home
  - Elgin marbles 'will never leave London'

• November 2, 2001
  - MPs want Elgin Marbles returned

• May 7, 2001
  - Greeks Seek Return of Elgin Marbles

• April 5, 2001
  - Re: Elgin Marbles (Christopher Seal)

• April 4, 2001
  - The Elgin Marbles (the sun may have set on the British Empire, but imperial habits die
  hard. Britain's continuing refusal to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece is a case in point)

• March 2001
  - Blair rules out return of Parthenon sculptures
  - Britain still won't give Elgin Marbles to Greece

  How the British Museum could give the Elgin Marbles back to Greece
  It is generally believed that only an Act of Parliament can allow the UK’s national museums to deaccession works. Professor Norman Palmer suggests two other legal instruments by which it could be done

• January 26, 2001
  - Sean Connery: Elgin Marbles should be returned to Athens

• December 20, 2000
  - Athens's New Subway System Brings Buried Treasures to Light

• December 5, 2000
  - Greek snub to British Museum over marbles

• September 8, 2000
  - large collection of Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles links

• August 19, 2000
  - Are the Brits losing their marbles?
  The time to return the Parthenon sculptures is now, says David Hill (Australian Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marble)

• May 25, 2000
  - Britain wins support over Elgin Marbles
  - Academics at war in Marbles forum

• February 20, 2000
  - The Bayeux Tapestry 'was made in England' ("We have taken a lot of criticism over the Elgin Marbles. It is time we redressed the balance and demand the Bayeux Tapestry come home to England")

• February 8, 2000
  - Will Britain lose its Marbles? (If the British Museum returned Lord Elgin's treasures to Greece, how safe would any loot be?)

• February 7, 2000
  - Greece offered deal for Elgin Marbles

• December 15 - 18, 1999
  - Britain has no plans to return Elgin Marbles to Greece

• December 7, 1999
  Column: Returning the Elgin Marbles

• November 30, 1999
  - Museum to come clean over Elgin Marbles

• November 28, 1999
  - Elgin paid massive bribes for Marbles
  - Pulled both ways: Charles wants the marbles returned for a Greek

• November 23/27, 1999
  - Parties unite to keep sculptures

• November 23/27, 1999
  - Clinton promises to pressure Britain on relics' return

• November 23/27, 1999
  - Greeks condemn state of Marbles

• November 13, 1999: - Greeks change tactics in fight for Marbles

• Law and Ethics Deriving from the Parthenon Marbles Case

• The Elgin Affair, by Theodore Vrettos.

• The Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles.htm

• The Parthenon Marbles

• Britain urged to return Elgin Marbles to Greece

• GIVE BACK THE ELGIN MARBLES

• Stolen Property or Finders Keepers

• The Law and Ethics Deriving from the Parthenon Marbles Case

• Elgin Pamphlet

• selected information on the Elgin Marbles

• more on the Elgin Marbles

• July 27, 1999: - Plan to return the Elgin Marbles

• - July 29, 1999: - Elgin marbles 'staying'

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