Two Turkish researchers have debunked the British claim that the Parthenon Marbles were a gift by the Ottoman Sultan Selim III to Lord Elgin. The Sultan did not issue an edict (ferman) allowing Elgin to loot the Acropolis, the researches have found. The Parthenon Marbles have been at the center of a decades-long tussle between … The post Turkish researchers: No Sultan’s edict allowing Lord Elgin to loot the Acropolis appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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