Sadly no photographs were allowed due to copyright issues.
I ran across this researching a place I wanted to visit. Except all the artifacts are deemed haunted which is the whole them of the place. It turns out you have to sign a waiver before entering and on top of that it's expensive, $25. Anyways, haha....
Greece is one of those places that is towards the top of my list to visit. I love ancient stone carvings and the whole folk lure of ancient God's. I didn't realize there was tentions over artifacts between the two counties, that's too bad. I'm sure there are other countries at arms with each other over a similar issues. I tend to be on the side that it belongs where it comes from. But not my call, haha.
Thanks for sharing and if I ever make it there I'll have to stop here first 😃
The Elgin Marbles are an interesting case because with arguements for both sides. I think the Turks didn't really care, it's not their history after all. Then there was issues over the legality of the permission granted and the scope, did Elgin exceed that. The British government did a review and concluded it was all good - not surprising 😂 And of course, there's the elephant in the room as @alonicus mentioned, if Elgin didn't take them, they wouldn't have lasted any longer. Fun times