By: Rodin

Rodin
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:30:44 +0000

I know that Greeks outside Greece want them returned. Classical civilization was lost until the Europeans started showing interest and digging around. So when you write the Ottomans showed no interest that is true. The Persians showed no interest in their pre Islamic past until the Europeans began rediscovering. Having said that the Benin sculptures have been returned to "Nigeria" which didn't exist when the sculptures were created so a precedent has been set by Britain. But this is informative and makes a good case for leaving them at the British Museum.