Make replicas and send the originals back.
With today's technology and help from skilful artists I doubt that anyone could tell the difference.
Make replicas and send the originals back.
With today's technology and help from skilful artists I doubt that anyone could tell the difference.
is there anything in the British Museum that is not stolen?
Why are the Pyramids in Giza?
They couldn't fit in a British museum.
Only the things they couldn't carry. There was a colossal head and arm of an Egyptian statue in the British museum, and a plaque saying the rest of the statue (body and legs) were still where they found it. Presumably because they were to heavy to take back.

There are some things - there are quite a few things that were either gifted by ambassadors or legitimately bought (as opposed to the dubious purchase of the Partheneon marbles) and also British artefacts.
Well, there were those artifacts that went missing recently. Those aren't in the British Museum any more.
Eternal reminder that Britain mismanaged Parthenon Marbles so they are permanently damaged.
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is…..
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Questions are being raised about the British Museum's security protocols, its handling of thefts, and how long senior management was aware before action was taken.
The security questions raised by the missing objects “reinforces the permanent and just demand of our country for the definitive return” of the Marbles, Greece’s Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, said in a recent interview with the newspaper To Vima.
Tim Loughton told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that news of items going missing from the museum’s collection in London is “damaging” but the institution is taking the thefts “seriously”.
The Conservative MP added: “For reassurance, people want to know the extent of the objects which have disappeared, what investigations took place at the time when various reports came in and what is being done now because otherwise (it’s) getting out of hand.”
The institution said it planned to take “legal action” against Peter John Higgs, a senior curator of Greek and Roman art who had worked at the museum for 30 years.
The museum has strenuously denied claims of a cover-up after it was reported that managers were warned two years ago that items were being taken from the collection and sold.
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