from The Guardian
End the exile
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This is the latest salvo in the long-running and extremely polarised debate on the return (or not) of the Parthenon (or Elgin) Marbles. However, lost amongst this current raging argument is a previous cleaning controversy - which happened more than 60 years ago - in the more technical world of conservation/restoration. That controversy was also publicly debated with the various documentary records and artefactual evidence scrutinised at the British Museum in 1999.