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Greece renews its calls for British Museum to return Parthenon Marbles in wake of priceless thefts (www.euronews.com)

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[-] silvercove 28 points 1 year ago

is there anything in the British Museum that is not stolen?

[-] Calanon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There are some things - there are quite a few things that were either gifted by ambassadors or legitimately bought (as opposed to the dubious purchase of the Partheneon marbles) and also British artefacts.

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