Greece Offers to Trade Antiquities With British Museum for Parthenon Marbles

It's been quite the year for the British Museum and not in the best way. The 270 year old institution, while having faced this criticism for some time now, experienced added pressure by Greek officials to return the Parthenon Marbles, amidst a number of similar repatriation efforts. In its defense, the museum claims that on top of "legal ownership" of the ancient reliefs, its reasons for withholding a return is due to a "moral responsibility to preserve and maintain all the collections in their ...