The British Museum has slammed the door on any hopes of Greece getting back the Parthenon Marbles. The museum says that “it was the museum’s duty to preserve the universality of the marbles, and to protect them from being appropriated as a nationalistic political symbol. But with half of the marbles still in Greece, and with a museum being built to house them at the foot of the Acropolis, campaigners for their return said that they found the British Museum’s attitude insulting”.