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Plunder for protection? Why is the British Museum's refusal to return the artifacts untenable?
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The British Museum theft has led several countries to demand the return of their artifacts, which the UK reject! Prof. Christos Tsirogiannis, an archaeologist from Greece, noted that the reasons fabricated by the UK for refusing to return the artifacts are not legitimate. 

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Prof. Christos Tsirogiannis: All these claims by these countries are absolutely legitimate, because we are talking about cultural heritage that has been removed from these nations without being asked first, in different circumstances for its nation.

Apart from these very basic bases of these claims, we had over the centuries, the last two centuries, when we were talking about. for example, the Parthenon Sculptures or the last decades, "the production," I would say, by the British museum or the British government at the same time, of fake arguments like:

For example, now for a long time it's part of our heritage or you are not able to safeguard your own heritage and we have the means to safeguard it much better than you could do, or that we can conserve this much better than yourself, or we are saving them by taking them from you.

All these arguments have collapsed over time. A, by poor conservation that damaged, for example, the surface of the Parthenon Sculptures, by rainwater falling from the roof of the room where they exhibited the Parthenon Sculptures, for example.

Of course, by this unimaginable widespread theft, both in numbers of objects missing and in decades of ongoing removals from inside the museum.

Therefore, it is totally justified to add in the historical archaeological claims of these countries, also, this argument.

 

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