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by somerandobrit 2091 days ago
I’ve never heard of this being an issue and I’ve visited Greece several times and have Greek coworkers.
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Basically the marbles were stolen decades ago, and the argument was that Greece was in no shape to hold them, so England was protecting them. Now we have the Acropolis museum, that argument doesn't hold so well any more.
Just to make the history clearer, they were taken centuries ago -- they were taken to Britain between 1801 and 1812.
I saw it in (I think, it wa sa while ago):

Posters in the airport Museums Tour Guides Random conversations

So some touristic and some just random like airport and people