Brexit may just hold the key to gaining back the Parthenon Marbles for Greece, according to The Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett who wrote the article “Brexit Chisels Away Any Right Britain had to the Parthenon Marbles.”
Cosslett notes once Britain leaves the EU it “should finally have the decency to return Greece’s plundered heritage, which resides in a gloomy room in the British Museum,” to Greece, where the “remaining Parthenon Marbles are bathed in sunlight and overlooked by the temple that was their original site.”
Cosslett also points out that only 23 percent of Brits, particularly among the young wanted to keep the sculptures, unlike the “Greeks (who) continue to care deeply about them”.
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