Elginism

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles - tovima.com The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles
The British scientists from the Institute of Digital Archaeology, created their application to achieve this (only not in the real world - yet) by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology.
www.tovima.com/stories/the-...

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles - tovima.com The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles
The British scientists from the Institute of Digital Archaeology, created their application to achieve this (only not in the real world - yet) by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology.
www.tovima.com/stories/the-...

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Australia’s Top Court Affirms Government’s Broad Powers to Seize Cultural Artefacts An artefact taken from the ruins of Tiwanaku and illegally exported from Bolivia more than 70 years ago has been seized by Australian customs officers and found by Australia’s highest court to be l…

Australia's High Court has upheld the forfeiture of a pre-Columbian artefact illegally exported from Bolivia over 70 years ago, under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986, despite the recipe happening more than 30 years before the Act came into force.
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Former Australian PM calls for return of Elgin Marbles Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Frazer, has been speaking in New Zealand about why he feels the Elgin Marbles should be returned. From: The New

Perhaps more surprisingly, his successor, Malcolm Fraser was also a supporter of restitution - an area in which he and Whitlam, normally ideologically opposed to one another, shared common ground.
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RIP Gough Whitlam - Parthenon Marbles reunification supporter Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was a long time supporter of the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. I was fortunate enough to see

Today is the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam by the governor general - a dark moment for democracy in Australia.
It's worth recalling a less known fact about the man though - Whitlam was a staunch supporter of the return of the Parthenon Marbles.
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Elgin's Grave Robbery largely unreported [Long read..but worth it we think!] - Tomminogue.com Opposing @PoliceScotland view of Turkish gold wreath I find to my £cost Elgin's Memorandum was pure fiction. But I knew that so more fool me

Parliament accepted the firman may have allowed Elgin to denude the Parthenon, but certainly didn't allow him to carry out the ancient Scots Law crime of Violation of Sepulchre.

Elgin knew that, but t'was only Greek graves & they didn't matter!
@elginism.bsky.social
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old

77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce thought he had a fragment of the Parthenon, picked up by his father Gaetano in 1930.
Hearing a radio program about the Elgin Marbles prompted him to return it, & he discovered it was older than he had supposed.
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New Documentary Says Parthenon Sculptures Stolen in "Greatest Heist in Art History" - GreekReporter.com A new documentary claims "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the Parthenon Sculptures were stolen, according to the director.

A new documentary by David Wilkinson titled The Marbles claims to settle the long-standing debate over the legal status of the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, stating unequivocally that these ancient sculptures were stolen from Greece.
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World premiere of THE MARBLES opening night film at the Central Scot. Documentary Festival sold out.
We have people attending from Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, Birmingham & London, & Nick Drossos/ family & friends coming from Melbourne, Aus.
Q&A Dame Janet Suzman & Neil Curtis.

LSE dropout son of Tory party activist & PE teacher has no opinion about the Parthenon Marbles.
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‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UK

The Bayeux tapestry is so fragile that transporting it risks irreparable damage, French experts have said, in a petition urging Emmanuel Macron to reverse a “catastrophic” decision to loan the unique embroidery to Britain.
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Times change. So, too, do people. Human sensitivities evolve with age and self-education and understanding. Unlike some institutions like the British Museum, however, which seem to remain largely intransigent.
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Ancient Acropolis Fragment Repatriated to Greece from Chile - iefimerida.gr A small marble fragment believed to be from a 6th-century B.C. temple on the Acropolis has been voluntarily returned to Greece by a family in Chile that had held it for nearly a century, the culture m...

A small marble fragment believed to be from a 6th-century B.C. temple on the Acropolis (before the Parthenon) has been voluntarily returned to Greece by a family in Chile that had held it for nearly a century, the Greek culture ministry announced.
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New Case: The Cleveland Bronze, contributed by Michela Herbert

Today the Cleveland Museum will take its iconic Roman bronze sculpture off display and return it to Türkiye after a failed attempt to deny its origins in the heavily looted site of Bubon.

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BBC World Service - The Documentary, The kidnapped dead: Germany’s stolen skulls Thousands of human remains are held in German museums. Why can’t they go back?

an important documentary about returning the dead from German museums, I am in there somewhere around minute 22
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Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures event Andrew George MP, the chair of the British Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, hosted a reception in Portcullis House yesterday

Press release from yesterday's Reuniting the Parthenon Marbles event organised by Andrew George MP. I wasn't able to attend, but it was good to see a lot of familiar faces in the photos.
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Relooted, one of the most anticipated video games of 2025, allows players to take stolen African artifacts from Western museums and return them to their home countries.

AJ+ talked to one of the creators...

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The looting of Iraq post fall of Saddam was more high profile - but we could be seeing a similar situation in slow motion, where large amounts of ancient heritage is illegally excavated and sold in plain sight.
Organisations that are facilitating sales of such artefacts need to do more to stop this.

Nigel Farage's support for keeping the Parthenon Marbles in the UK ought to help convince many who were on the fence (often through lack of in depth knowledge of the issue) that returning them is clearly the right side to take.

Screenshot of Guardian article: "Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles. Ex-PM among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to Greece,"

Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A.

"Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges."
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Syria’s treasure hunting fever - podcast What can be done to stop Syria’s unprecedented scramble for antiquities? William Christou reports

Worrying podcast from @theguardian.com about the rapid rise of metal detecting in Syria lost Assad - and what it means for the preservation of the country's heritage.
www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

John Huntley went further, pointing out that there is no credible dispute over the legal ownership of the tapestry - only discussion of where it should best be displayed:
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Now that I've previously written about how this case is nothing like that of the Parthenon Marbles (and indeed this loan is not in response to any sort of ownership valuation from Britain):
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The Bayeux tapestry will return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years as part of a landmark reciprocal loan agreement by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron - a great example of cultural cooperation.
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The Debate: Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles? As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.

I've written half of a piece in City AM today on the Parthenon Marbles and whether they should return to Greece - it won't surprise you that I'm the one arguing on the Yes side.
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I'd assume that it was insured and that the payout was made on this - which would tend to mean that it would be the property of the insurers if recovered?

In terms of the outcome though, stuff is of limited value without provenance - there would need to be proof it was the same sculpture and not just a copy that got bashed up to make it look like it had been in a building collapse.