D.The British Museum is the most suitable place to protect these sculptures.(2)What can we learn about Lord Elgin from the passage? ___A.He is greatly admired in Greece.B.He worked for the Ottoman Empire.C.He saved the Parthenon sculptures from being destroyed.D.H...
When he sailed for England in April 1811, he traveled for a time aboard the transport ship Hydra, which also carried the last large shipments of Lord Elgin's marbles. He arrived at Sheerness, Kent, on 14 July, two years and twelve days after his departure. To Augusta he wrote on 9 Se...
The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles has achieved a great deal since it was formed including: The Committee’s first victory was when the British Museum stopped referring to the Marbles as the Elgin Marbles and started calling them the Parthenon Marbles. The Committe...
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, has gone down in history as the man who stolethe Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon overlooking Athens. Vilified in print byLord Byron and sniggered at in smart society, Elgin had been further humiliatedby a very public divorce after losing his wife and fort...