Elgin Marbles
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The Elgin marbles (so-called after the British aristocrat, James Bruce, Lord Elgin who removed them from Athens to London), is a collection of hundreds of pieces of ancient Greek sculptures and architectural pieces taken from the Parthenon, which sits on
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The marbles include friezes, pediment sculptures, and fragments of statues as well as columns, capitals, blocks of wall and a caryatid (a figure supporting the beam running along at the top of columns) from the Erechtheum, a temple of Athena.
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For the last sixty years controversy has surrounded the marbles, as the Greek government has repeatedly demanded their return.
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