Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 2084: The grudges between the Greeks and the British

www.lnmao.org, the fastest update to the latest chapters of treasure hunting around the world!

The Acropolis Museum is divided into three floors: the bottom, the middle and the upper floors. The display content on each floor is different.

After entering the museum, Ye Tian and the others first visited the bottom floor.

The ground floor of the museum is suspended above a huge archaeological site, using a column network composed of many reinforced concrete columns to support the museum above.

Here, Ye Tian saw a huge archaeological excavation site from a bird's eye view.

Through this archaeological excavation site, he saw all aspects of the economy, culture, art, and social life of ancient Greece two to three thousand years ago, and took a trip to ancient Greece!

Of course, during this process, he did not forget to secretly turn on clairvoyance to explore the secrets hidden deeper underground.

As before, his vision easily penetrated the archaeological site and saw many unknown secrets deep underground, as well as many valuable antiques and artworks buried deeper underground.

Unfortunately, he cannot make these secrets public, and he has no chance to obtain those valuable antiques and artworks. It is impossible for him to obtain them.

Unless one day the Greeks become crazy poor and the Greek government goes completely bankrupt and prepares to sell the Acropolis Museum, then he will be able to obtain the treasures hidden deeper underground.

Obviously, this possibility basically does not exist.

While visiting and appreciating the Acropolis Museum, Ye Tian was also laughing and chatting with Pandemalis, who was accompanying the visitor, and several other Greek antique art appraisal experts.

"Mr. Director, after checking into the hotel, I thought carefully about it. Your Acropolis Museum, the Greek Ministry of Culture, and the National Archaeological Museum of Greece can send people to participate in this exploration operation"

After hearing this, the faces of several Greeks at the scene showed a look of ecstasy, and they almost raised their arms and cheered.

"That's great, Steven, it's rare for you to be so generous. Thank you very much! No need to ask, there must be conditions for us to send people to participate in this expedition to explore the sunken treasure. Let's talk about it!"

Pandemalis said excitedly, his eyes full of anticipation, as did the other Greeks.

Ye Tian looked at this old friend, then nodded with a smile and said:

"You are right, Pandemalis. Each of your two museums and the Ministry of Culture can only send two people to participate in the exploratory operation. It is best to be experts and scholars who study the sculpture art of ancient Rome and Hellenism.

And your people must obey the command and cannot act without authorization, let alone interfere with our exploration of this ancient Roman shipwreck treasure. In this regard, they are not professional, and their involvement will only do bad things.

Not only you, but also several famous museums have sent representatives to participate in this exploration, including representatives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the U.S. Department of Culture."

Unsurprisingly, the expressions of all the Greeks present changed and became very ugly.

Each of them knows very well that those guys from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art are definitely here for those possible sculptures from the ancient Roman or Hellenistic periods!

The representatives sent by the U.S. Department of Culture are a threat that cannot be ignored to everyone except Steven and his company.

Because of the existence of those guys, anyone who wants to play tricks on this sunken treasure will be a little more cautious, including the Greek government authorities.

The reactions of these Greeks were all seen by Ye Tian at a glance.

But he seemed not to have seen him before and continued to smile and said:

"In addition, the guys from the Louvre in France and the British Museum in England also called me, hoping to participate in this exploration operation, and have already sent representatives to Athens"

"Ah! Those British robbers actually sent people here, how can they be so embarrassed? When I see those British robbers, I really want to ask them face to face, when will they return the Elgin that they stole from the Parthenon? Marble statue?"

Pandemalis gritted his teeth and said with an extremely angry expression.

Several other Greeks were the same. When they heard about the British Museum, they immediately became furious and clenched their fists tightly.

Their performance was completely within Ye Tian's expectation, and he was not surprised at all.

There is no other reason, because what Pandermaris called the 'Elgin Marbles' is one of the best, most complete and outstanding statues in the Parthenon, but it was destroyed by the British. Robbed in the early nineteenth century.

The Parthenon is the eternal symbol of Greece. From this we can see how important the Elgin marble statue is in the minds of the Greeks.

When the British snatched away the Elgin Marble Statue, Greece was still under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador at the time, took away this exquisite ancient Greek sculpture, half buying and half robbing it.

During this process, Lord Elgin not only ordered the marble statue to be dismembered, cut into pieces and shipped back to England, but also caused great damage to the Parthenon, making every Greek hate it. !

Not long after this marble statue was shipped to the UK, in 1816, the British royal family acquired this extremely precious marble statue from Lord Elgin and displayed it in the British Museum.

For more than two hundred years since then, the Elgin Marbles, or the Parthenon Marbles, have been displayed in the British Museum and have become one of the famous treasures of the British Museum.

In the 1980s, the then Greek Minister of Culture proposed a motion at the United Nations General Assembly requiring the British to return the Elgin Marbles, a request that was supported by most countries.

However, the vote on this motion did not bind the UK, and the British and the British Museum refused to return the Elgin Marbles.

In the following decades, Britain and Greece argued countless times over the ownership of the Elgin Marble, but nothing changed. The marble statue is still displayed in the British Museum.

One of the reasons why the British Museum refuses to return the Elgin Marble is that the conservation conditions in Athens, Greece, are too poor and the old Acropolis Museum is too dilapidated to house this priceless treasure.

However, after the completion of the New Acropolis Museum in 2009, the exhibition and collection conditions have reached the world's top level, and the British Museum still has no plans to return the Elgin Marbles.

This made the Greeks furious, and people hated the British Museum even more, and everyone gnashed their teeth in hatred.

As the director of the Acropolis Museum and experts and scholars of this top museum, one can imagine how Pandemalis and the others felt when they heard that the British Museum was going to send people to Athens.

Ye Tian knows very well about these disputes between the British and the Greeks, as well as the grievances between the British Museum and the Acropolis Museum.

However, he did not mean to mediate at all, and even gloated a little, waiting for the British and the Greeks to meet, and the people's brains would be better than the dogs' brains.

After a pause, Ye Tian continued:

"Pandermaris, let's put aside the grievances between you and the British Museum for now. I believe you will find a way to resolve the conflict. Let's continue talking about this exploratory operation.

When the exploration begins, I will provide you observers with a yacht to follow us to the Mediterranean. You are not allowed to interfere with us during the remainder of the exploration.

If we are lucky enough to find this ancient Roman shipwreck treasure this time, and this shipwreck treasure does contain a large number of sculptures from the ancient Roman or Hellenistic periods, that would be great.

Next, we will start deep-sea salvage work. After we bring those ancient sculptures out of the water, you can come up to appreciate and identify those ancient sculptures."

Hearing this, Pandemalis couldn't help but fell silent, as did several other Greeks.

After a moment, Pandemalis nodded and said:

"Okay, Steven, we accept your conditions. I hope your exploration goes well and you find those ancient Roman shipwrecks as soon as possible!"