This thread is dedicated to the victims of the British Empire.
Here we see the Parthenon at the Acropolis, millennia before she would be cruelly laid low by Venetian cannon fire, and then stripped of her remaining richness by English Nobility chiseling away at the skeleton .
Brit here, please can everyone contribute. I'm going to enjoy this thread.
What with you and Opium?
Is that really true, though?
Opium feels quite nice.
RIP dream of Constantinople once again being part of Christendom
You know, They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is....
If the British hadn't taken it would have been destroyed over the following centuries and by Athens' infamous shitty acid rain.
The locals were using the marble from the Parthenon for housing this is what prompted the British to "buy" the sculptures.
it would be highly unlikely they would have survived if they hadn't been taken.
Nope, the place was turned into a church and latter into a mosque, aside from few additions, it was mostly left as it is
If you're talking about the Acropolis, its different matter
After the Turks had recaptured the Acropolis they used some of the rubble produced by this explosion to erect a smaller mosque within the shell of the ruined Parthenon. For the next century and a half, portions of the remaining structure were looted for building material and any remaining objects of value.
>brits in charge of not fucking up
also from wiki
>Yet another effort to clean the marbles occurred in 1937–38. This time the incentive was provided by the construction of a new Gallery to house the collection. The Pentelic marble, from which the sculptures are made, naturally acquires a tan colour similar to honey when exposed to air; this colouring is often known as the marble's "patina"[58] but Lord Duveen, who financed the whole undertaking, acting under the misconception that the marbles were originally white[59] probably arranged for the team of masons working in the project to remove discolouration from some of the sculptures. The tools used were seven scrapers, one chisel and a piece of carborundum stone. They are now deposited in the British Museum's Department of Preservation.[59][60] The cleaning process scraped away some of the detailed tone of many carvings.[61]
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>incapable of defending your own country
>somehow Britain's fault
Oh and we'll keep the bases.
It's Britain's fault that they constantly rejected the locals proposals, brought Turkey to have an interest over Cyprus, caused the hostilities between Greek and Turks of the island, gave too much power to the Turkish Cypriots despite being less than 1/5 of the island and did nothing when Turkey invaded despite being a guarenteeing power
>opium cigarettes
Doing it wrong
the turks stopped when they reached the British bases.They where fearful of having a confrontation with a major power. if the Brits weren't there nothing would have halted them.
the point is that this whole shit wouldn't have happened if the British weren't autistic about Cyprus in a time when they were already granting independence to their colonies. Shoudl've just given it to Greece and be done with it.
should just kept it then and become part of the UK.if they cant handle their own affairs and feel threatened by larger neighbors.
>unification with Greece? What's that?
spotted the Turk
chasing at shadows greek
No? You know that the part that weren't destroyed are still standing right?
Freaking kiddos...
Sure is that why the Parthenon is still standing?
>that part that isn't destroyed is not destroyed
ottoman turks left plus rising greek nationalism.
But even then without 19 century western interest in archaeology such as howard carter in Egypt its unlikely the West or indeed Greece would deem them of any value like the previous Turks and Greek generations
>The plan worked
pretty much explains it right in the pic
Greece were too retarded to take out Turkey when their clay was given to them, you think they are going to trust them with Cyprus?
Yeah no shit, it's not destroyed by acid rain so it's still standing.
The guy I replied to claimed that it
>would have been destroyed over the following centuries and by Athens' infamous shitty acid rain.
so I corrected him, what's your fucking problem?
based brits
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lotta french, indians, and colonialists killed.
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