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Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary
Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary
Totally, in the end it boils down to that. England holds cultural heritage treasures that were undoubtedly stolen/robbed and they have no intention of giving those back either.
An example is this Portugese book collection: https://www.sulinformacao.pt/en/2013/12/associacao-«faro-1540»-quer-que-inglaterra-devolva-colecao-de-livros-roubada-em-1596/