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Who was Lord Elgin: He lived as a plunderer, died pursued by his creditors
The life of the Scottish aristocrat who went down in history as the perpetrator of the barbaric theft of the Parthenon ...
BBC9d
Son of Lord Lucan nanny searches for her killer
Neil Berriman's mother was at the centre of an infamous murder case The son of the woman thought to have been murdered by Lord Lucan believes the peer "could still be alive" following his ...
The modern ‘monument’ man who says he has solved the 200-year-old Elgin Marbles row
Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an ...
The replicas that could end the Elgin Marbles row
Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an ...
Radio France Internationale15d
Greeks still sceptical Britain will return Parthenon Marbles
Scottish nobleman Thomas Bruce, known as Lord Elgin. Elgin sold the marbles to the British government, which in 1817 passed them on to the British Museum where they remain one of its most prized ...
Stoneham Independent15d
Greeks still sceptical Britain will return Parthenon Marbles
It was partially destroyed during a Venetian bombardment in 1687, and in the early 1800s workmen took friezes from the ...
Kent Online15d
Deal on Elgin Marbles ‘still some distance’ away, says George Osborne
They were removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century when he was British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Some of the remaining temple statues are on display in the purpose-built Acropolis ...