VISIT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM 1994

Video shows the famous Elgin Marbles,Rosetta Stone and many outstanding Ancient Egyptian artefacts.

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• british
• london
• Culture
• Museum
• elgin
• marbles
• rosetta
• stone
• egypt

[ott21]

yep the so called ''elgin marbles'' are those which elgin STOLE from the greeks when they were in need and the british goverment now ,because of course they dont have history as a nation, refuses to return ..............

[birdman143]

Thanks for watching the video and raising this point of controversy.

[yanos47]

Very impresive display of 200 years of thievery...

[potgr]

british only have the stonehenge as part of their history . everything else is stolen. if the museum was with brirish sculptures it would have only a pile of rocks.

[hoplitespao]

Be careful.

People from FYROM try to tell that the "demotic" (middle text) part of Rosetta Stone was written in ancient macedonian.

Demotic (from greek "popular") was a simplification of egytptian language (hieroglyphic)

Ancient macedonian language used by Alexander the Great was the greek and not a a native tongue invented by propangada from fyrom

After greek bulgaria histoy stole they are trying to steal egyptian history

[kajamix]

The British govt of the time, in a mood to appease the Sultan, decided to keep them and thus humiliate the King of Greece (Otto) - this they reconned was going to make the Turks forget that they helped the Greek revolution succeed. This shambles of a decision is what started it. Modern Turkey are of course deny any involvement and they accept that the marbles are Greek.

[kajamix]

Elgin took the marbles from the Turks not the Greeks, under dubious circumstances. We began to call it "a theft" after 1836 when the Greek state was formed and of course it was no longer necessary for those marbles to be in London.