Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill wrote to The Times following on from their article of Wednesday 15 June by Jack Malvern entitled 'George Osborne seeks deal on Elgin Marbles'.
The British Museum should sit down with their Greek counterparts and find a way of sharing the Elgin Marbles, its chairman has said.
George Osborne, the chairman of the trustees of the British Museum and Conservative former chancellor, suggested that it was time to find a solution to the row over the ownership of the Athenian sculptures.
“They’re an amazing testament to human civilisation,” Osborne told Andrew Marr on LBC. “In the British Museum, they tell a story about civilisation compared to all the other civilisations, China, India, other parts of the Mediterranean. In Greece, they tell the story, just of Greek civilisation. I think there’s a deal to be done but I think there’s a deal to be done where we can tell both stories in Athens and in London.”
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The Times, letters page Saturday 18 June 2022 carried Andrew's letter:
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