Today another article came out in the USA Today about who owns the priceless artifacts from years past. Some countries are really increasing their pressure on countries who harbor and exhibit cultural property that was not created there. A recent debate has started on the sculpture of the Elgin Marbles.



Greece was hoping to exhibit the sculpture at it's new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Britain however has other ideas.

British Museum spokeswoman Hannah Boulton says. The Marbles, she says, won't be going to Greece — not out of fear they cannot be preserved, but because they fit in the museum's goal of displaying mankind's shared cultural heritage. "They should remain part of the collection," she says.

But why I ask is why they CAN'T be in Greece. Is the excuse to not break up an exhibit enough to not return it to its country of origin? Many countries have had similar issues. Egypt for one has really had a difficult time in recent history getting back "looted" work. Its history seems to be spread all over the globe.

What do you think? Should historical art be returned to the country of origin? Greece seems to think so, in fact, the sculpture wasn't even given away by Greece. The Ottoman empire allowed Lord Elgin to remove it among other pieces.

Personally, it should all go back, all of it.