Of all the people they could pick to invite to a private viewing, why him? What do they want from him or what does he want from them? The British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry. share.google/IAu3ipt8Jgs1...

British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

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The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles The British scientists from the Institute of Digital Archaeology, created their application to achieve this (only not in the real world - yet) by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology. www.tovima.com/stories/the-...

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles - tovima.com

The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

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The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles The British scientists from the Institute of Digital Archaeology, created their application to achieve this (only not in the real world - yet) by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology. www.tovima.com/stories/the-...

The Digital “Kidnapping” of the Marbles - tovima.com

The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

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Australia's High Court has upheld the forfeiture of a pre-Columbian artefact illegally exported from Bolivia over 70 years ago, under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986, despite the recipe happening more than 30 years before the Act came into force. www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

Australia’s Top Court Affirms Government’s Broad Powers to Seize Cultural Artefacts

An artefact taken from the ruins of Tiwanaku and illegally exported from Bolivia more than 70 years ago has been seized by Australian customs officers and found by Australia’s highest court to be l…

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam by the governor general - a dark moment for democracy in Australia. It's worth recalling a less known fact about the man though - Whitlam was a staunch supporter of the return of the Parthenon Marbles. www.elginism.com/elgin-marble...

RIP Gough Whitlam - Parthenon Marbles reunification supporter

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was a long time supporter of the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. I was fortunate enough to see

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Parliament accepted the firman may have allowed Elgin to denude the Parthenon, but certainly didn't allow him to carry out the ancient Scots Law crime of Violation of Sepulchre. Elgin knew that, but t'was only Greek graves & they didn't matter! @elginism.bsky.social www.tomminogue.com/tom/?p=2350

Elgin's Grave Robbery largely unreported [Long read..but worth it we think!] - Tomminogue.com

Opposing @PoliceScotland view of Turkish gold wreath I find to my £cost Elgin's Memorandum was pure fiction. But I knew that so more fool me

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77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce thought he had a fragment of the Parthenon, picked up by his father Gaetano in 1930. Hearing a radio program about the Elgin Marbles prompted him to return it, & he discovered it was older than he had supposed. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens

The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old

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A new documentary by David Wilkinson titled The Marbles claims to settle the long-standing debate over the legal status of the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, stating unequivocally that these ancient sculptures were stolen from Greece. greekreporter.com/2025/11/09/n...

New Documentary Says Parthenon Sculptures Stolen in "Greatest Heist in Art History" - GreekReporter.com

A new documentary claims "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the Parthenon Sculptures were stolen, according to the director.

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World premiere of THE MARBLES opening night film at the Central Scot. Documentary Festival sold out. We have people attending from Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, Birmingham & London, & Nick Drossos/ family & friends coming from Melbourne, Aus. Q&A Dame Janet Suzman & Neil Curtis.

LSE dropout son of Tory party activist & PE teacher has no opinion about the Parthenon Marbles. greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Bayeux tapestry is so fragile that transporting it risks irreparable damage, French experts have said, in a petition urging Emmanuel Macron to reverse a “catastrophic” decision to loan the unique embroidery to Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan

Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UK

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Times change. So, too, do people. Human sensitivities evolve with age and self-education and understanding. Unlike some institutions like the British Museum, however, which seem to remain largely intransigent. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A small marble fragment believed to be from a 6th-century B.C. temple on the Acropolis (before the Parthenon) has been voluntarily returned to Greece by a family in Chile that had held it for nearly a century, the Greek culture ministry announced. www.iefimerida.gr/english/anci...

Ancient Acropolis Fragment Repatriated to Greece from Chile - iefimerida.gr

A small marble fragment believed to be from a 6th-century B.C. temple on the Acropolis has been voluntarily returned to Greece by a family in Chile that had held it for nearly a century, the culture m...

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New Case: The Cleveland Bronze, contributed by Michela Herbert Today the Cleveland Museum will take its iconic Roman bronze sculpture off display and return it to Türkiye after a failed attempt to deny its origins in the heavily looted site of Bubon. mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...

good evening to everyone except the hard-right culture warriors and those who would appease them 🔥✨❤️

an important documentary about returning the dead from German museums, I am in there somewhere around minute 22 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The kidnapped dead: Germany’s stolen skulls

Thousands of human remains are held in German museums. Why can’t they go back?

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Press release from yesterday's Reuniting the Parthenon Marbles event organised by Andrew George MP. I wasn't able to attend, but it was good to see a lot of familiar faces in the photos. www.elginism.com/elgin-marble...

Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures event

Andrew George MP, the chair of the British Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, hosted a reception in Portcullis House yesterday

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Relooted, one of the most anticipated video games of 2025, allows players to take stolen African artifacts from Western museums and return them to their home countries. AJ+ talked to one of the creators... www.instagram.com/reel/DMETOk6...

The looting of Iraq post fall of Saddam was more high profile - but we could be seeing a similar situation in slow motion, where large amounts of ancient heritage is illegally excavated and sold in plain sight. Organisations that are facilitating sales of such artefacts need to do more to stop this.

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Worrying podcast from @theguardian.com about the rapid rise of metal detecting in Syria lost Assad - and what it means for the preservation of the country's heritage. www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

Nigel Farage's support for keeping the Parthenon Marbles in the UK ought to help convince many who were on the fence (often through lack of in depth knowledge of the issue) that returning them is clearly the right side to take.

Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A. "Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Worrying podcast from @theguardian.com about the rapid rise of metal detecting in Syria lost Assad - and what it means for the preservation of the country's heritage. www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

Syria’s treasure hunting fever - podcast

What can be done to stop Syria’s unprecedented scramble for antiquities? William Christou reports

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The Bayeux tapestry will return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years as part of a landmark reciprocal loan agreement by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron - a great example of cultural cooperation. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I've written half of a piece in City AM today on the Parthenon Marbles and whether they should return to Greece - it won't surprise you that I'm the one arguing on the Yes side. www.cityam.com/the-debate-s...

The Debate: Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles?

As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.

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Interesting story just cropped up on @mattbevan.bsky.social's ever fascinating ABC - If You're Listening podcast. What happened to the original bronze cast of Rodin's The Thinker from Cantor Fitzgerald's World Trade Center offices after 9-11? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Howard Lutnick and The Gates of Hell - ABC listen

When two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11 2001 Howard Lutnick lost 658 of his colleagues. It was a tragedy of unthinkable proportions which we covered in last week’s e...

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I can’t believe this isn’t a spoof article. It seems to be supporting a very questionable approach to human remains. @babao2025meeting.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Drinking from skulls is a noble tradition

Accusations of a tasteless custom by Oxford dons overlook a rite that has been going on in Britain since the Stone Age

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It's isn't just museums who normalise colonial era acquired human remains: Oxford academics drank from a chalice made from a human skull for decades, a book that explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains has revealed. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals

Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

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It's kind of nice that they had to put this in explicit form I guess, but this has been the argument since the election - if the electorate elected Trump to do it, Trump is therefore allowed to do it. It ignores that the electorate didn't explicitly say what it wanted and that the mandate is small

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The Justice Department says Trump derives his authority to deport migrants without due process from “Article II and the mandate of the electorate,” so it has no obligation to provide further details of the operation to Boasberg. “Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.

Not that wowed by one of the new British Museum Trustee choices TBH. It seems an odd time to be appointing to the board people who are decidedly non-neutral on matters relating to the restitution of cultural artefacts. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The Prime Minister has appointed 5 Trustees to the British Museum

The Prime Minister has appointed Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Tom Holland, Dr. Tiffany Jenkins, Martha Kearney and Claudia Winkleman as trustees of the British Museum; their four year terms started o...

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