One of the most high-profile examples of this is the long-running dispute with Greece over the marble friezes from the Parthenon in Athens, acquired by Thomas Elgin in the early part of the 1800s and subsequently sold to the museum. The other is the Benin bronzes, brought back by British...
revered and beloved is in some way part of its essence. A few individuals have returned ill-gotten antiquities to the cultures in which they originated. In 2014, Mark Walker, a retired doctor from Wales whose grandfather took part in the British army’s bloody looting of Benin City in ...