Chipping away at the deadlock over Elgin Marbles' ownership

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Lord Elgin used illicit and inequitable means to seize and export the Parthenon sculptures, without real legal permission to do so, in a blatant act of serial theft."

taking the relics to London helped to safeguard them from neglect and the corrosive effects of Athens' acid rain and that they are part of a shared heritage, and thus transcend cultural boundaries. 

resolved with the help of 3D machining. His University of Oxford-based research consortium has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects.

When two people both want the same cake, baking a second, identical cake is one obvious solution.

restitution would set a disturbing precedent and that major museum holdings everywhere would be in jeopardy. 

The biggest hurdle, she said, is that the words "copy" and "replica" still mean "second best",

It is hard to imagine anyone who wants the marbles to remain at the British Museum being satisfied with something produced in part by robots, when the originals represent to them the high point of human artistry

Qn: ‘Works of art which have been removed from their country of origin should be returned.’ Discuss. (Cam. 2018)