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He then tries to sell them to the British Parliament

A maximum of ₤30,000, dear Elgin.

Elgin claims the sculptures are privately owned

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During the first mission, Elgin's personal ship, the Mentor, is wrecked off Kythera. The sculptures of the Parthenon, with which it was loaded, sunk to the bottom of the sea and the Greek divers under Elgin's command took two years to rescue them.

From 1801 to 1804 Elgin's crews worked on the Acropolis, causing significant damage to the sculptures and the monument itself, detaching and dismembering a significant portion of the Parthenon's surviving sculptural decoration.

180 years later the sculptures are in the British Museum. When will they return to their natural place, in the Parthenon, the most brilliant monument of Greece?

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A Photobook by Mimidou Vana Mentor: Vana Papaioannou

This photoalbum created by the students of 1st Junior High School of Byron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thomas Bruce, 7th Lord of Elgin, is appointed British ambassador to Turkey and he is an admirer of the ancient greek art.

I want to build a mansion in Scotland and make it my wifes wedding hall.I love Greek architecture. What do you suggest?

We will take moldw from the Acropolis and make copies.But you have to bribe the Turkish governor to allow us entry

Elgin exhibits his spoils, in sketchy exhibitions he organizes in London... 

by Author Vana Mimidou and students' team of 1st Junior High School of Byron , Athens

But Elgin lied to the Sultan. Instead of making copies of the Acropolis sculptures, he took them down and carried them on the ship bound for England

A huge and unique collection of 56 zoophoros stones from the Parthenon, 19 pediments and 15 metopes along with some architectural members from the monument.

Byron would stigmatize Elgin's sacrilege with the words: "Even the waves refused to be complicit in his sacrilege."

The sculptures were stacked on top of each other in huts

B. Haydon who visited the Marbles in 1807 reports: "we entered a damp, dirty room, where the marbles lay at such a distance that we could not only see them but also touch them"

I will give you ₤5 for each visit of my construction workers

The sultan sends a firman to the governor of Athens

"There should be no interruption or obstacle to their constraction work"

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