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Anglo-Sicilian, classical archaeologist, antirepatriationist, defender of the #ElginMarbles. On BBC5live, GBNews, SkyNews, LBC, The Critic Magazine. Proudly #Conservative. DM x media https://linktr.ee/elginmarbles
Have you read my Marbles Bulletin no. 7 yet?
Here's this week's content:
- British Museum Conference
- Training the new generation of history deniers
- Play museum robber
- Looted moai story debunked (again)
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Well, that depends on the hypocaust.
This one does have a hypocaust, right?
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...Right...?
My "Marbles Bulletin 05/2026" is out now! Have you read it yet?
Topics:
- Marbles "kidnapped"
- BM Palestine row
- Greece & Egypt alliance
- Helene Ahrweiler
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Marbles Bulletin n.4 is out!
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Marbles Bulletin 2026/03 is out! t.co/ujzLcEnWvd
Coming from Sicily, I can certainly understand the temptation to claim an ambivalent position, but I think there is a fundamental difference between our cases and those of places where coloniser culture and indigenous culture dont share the same genealogy
"To allow museums to be raided under the guise of โex gratiaโ morality would be an act of cultural self-harm from which there is no recovery"
My latest opinion piece on The Critic magazine. Read it while it's hot!
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It works very well. I have tried it with the Elgin Marbles in mind, and it says they should stay!
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Marbles Bulletin n. 2 is out!
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Starting this week, I have decided to publish a weekly bulletin with progress reports and intelligence about the #ElginMarbles saga, including updates on my manuscript and "opposition watch". I hope people will find it useful
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The British Museum IS the rightful owner of the Elgin Marbles. No return necessary
What a strange reply. If all I told you is true, and I invite you to check for yourself, then we have a lawful acquisition. So why should the marbles be returned to Greece if their acquisition was lawful? How is giving away lawfully owned stuff "the right thing to do"?
So much you seem not to know about how thigs went. And this much is the difference between the "theft" fairytale and a lawful acquisition. Hopefully these few verifiable facts will prompt you to research this matter more in depth. 4/4
The Parthenon was not "broken apart" by Elgin; it was already a ruin, with more than half of its architectural members missing, mostly spread all around it, reused or destroyed. Only 15% of what Elgin took came from the building itself, the rest from around it or reclaimed. 3/4
No deal was ever negotiated. Elgin requested permission to remove items, and the legitimate and internationally recognised government of the day granted it. The Acropolis was a military base under the authortiy of the Grand Vizir, whose deputy signed the permission to remove. 2/4
Too many deatils of your reconstruction are just not history at all. The Ottomans conquered Athens in 1458 from the Florentine dukes of Athens & Neopatria who ruled it. In international law, this is no occupation and gives full legal rights to all public property. 1/4
The Elgin Marbles were not stolen. Where did you get such a ridiculous notion?
I wish all and everyone of my readers a happy and blessed Christmas. May the contemplation of the scene of Betlehem bring true wisdom to those who govern us, just as the star led the Magi to the Truth.
(Relief: courtesy of Brighton & Hove Museums)
My comments on the recent declarations by George Osborne and Victoria Hislop on the #ElginMarbles for the Greek newspaper TO BHMA
(in ๐ฌ๐ท, but you can read a translated version with Chrome)
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There may well be distinctions in flavour, but they all either are archaeologies or they are not. If they are, then my objection stands, I believe
Apologies, I see that I might have taken your invitation to offer "feedback and critique" too literally
archaeology just because some people from different intellectual traditions don't believe in the value or usefulness of the past. It is up to those people to be consistent with their beliefs and reject archaeology, museums, UNESCO and the lot. Problem solved, decolonisation achieved.
This basically means, to cut a long story short, that you can have either archaeology OR decolonialism, but not both. Which is of course fine. I am not one to push for univers. value of archaeology or to make our linear time framework mandatory for everyone. I just don't believe we shld demolish...
achieved only with 100% refusal to practice archaeology at all. Any other solution is compromise, window-dressing, or emasculating inclusion.
To use one of the elements of your proposal, refusal, if one is not part of the Western intellectual tradition or refuses its heritage as colonial and imperialistic, then the amount of decolonisation you can get is directly proportional to the amount of refusal, with a true decolonisation...
because either you are in the shoes of the coloniser (and then archaeology has only sense in the realm of the Western intellectual tradition) or you are in those of the colonised (and then the very existence of archaeology is foreign to you and part of the problem). Do I make any sense?
But if you are not part of that Western intellectual tradition, and do not value the past at all, or as a useful hermeneutic tool to make sense of the present, then you don't need archaeology at all. So if all of this is as correct as we say, there cannot be a decolonial archaeology,...
A thought-provoking article, in line with all your work on decolonial arch. I must admit, though, that I am not a believer. Archaeology is useful insofar it helps to research & document the past. The past is useful, in the Western intellectual trad., to explain the present & predict the future...
The public supports the idea of the CuratorRob calendar
There is also another possibility: these may also be the arms of George V when he was Prince of Wales (1901-1910). Do you have any reason to place it before or after 1901?