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Lapith fighting a Centaur; detail of a metope from the Parthenon at Athens; one of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum
Explore Bloomsbury's British Museum, home to the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone, in London
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From the Elgin Marbles to NAGPRA: What is repatriation?
Repatriation is about more than museums taking stolen materials off display.
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Explore Bloomsbury's British Museum, home to the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone, in London
Characterization of the British Museum and of the Bloomsbury group, which met nearby.
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three female sculptures from the Parthenon
Female figures, interpreted as (left to right) Hestia, Dione, and her daughter Aphrodite...
© Mark R. Higgins/Shutterstock.com
detail of a the Parthenon frieze with the Panathenaic procession
Panathenaic procession and cavalcade, detail of the north frieze from the Parthenon...
© Tony Baggett—iStock.com/Getty Images
horse of Selene
Head of a horse of Selene, the moon goddess; one of the Elgin Marbles, in the British...
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Lapith and centaur
Lapith fighting a centaur, high relief metope, one of the Elgin Marbles, from the...
SEF/Art Resource, New York
Lapith fighting a Centaur; detail of a metope from the Parthenon at Athens; one of...
Hirmer Fotoarchiv, Munich
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