Parthenon marbles digital copies

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As pressure mounts on the British Museum to return the Elgin Parthenon marbles, some are preparing to make replicas. 

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'Digital archaeologists' have secretly scanned the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Marbles inside the British Museum — with the hope of creating 'perfect' replicas that could one day lead to the repatriation of the originals to Greece.

The researchers took the detailed 3D images by stealth after the museum refused a formal request.

Experts from the Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) hope marble blocks can be created with metal chisels, in much the same way the sculptures were created by the ancient Greek architect Phidias around 447–438 BC.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/digital-archaeologists-secretly-scan-elgin-marbles-in-british-museum/ar-AAVtWPU

 

There have been several threads on the controversy of these Elgin marbles before:

 

 

Edited March 26, 2022 by guy

[guy]

Here is a follow-up on the British Museum’s unexplained prohibition against the digital scanning of the Elgin marbles. This scanning would help to create high-quality copies of the Parthenon sculptures, much better than the plaster casts of the past. This scanning controversy is part of the larger controversy to return the Elgin marbles:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/29/british-museum-facing-legal-action-parthenon-marbles-3d-scan-refusal