The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts removed 44 artworks worth an estimated $2.7 million from its collection last year, after investigators identified them as stolen. The artworks included the Statue
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The statues and friezes, which formed part of the Parthenon temple built in the fifth century BC, are known in the UK as the “Elgin marbles” because they were removed in the early 1800s by Lord Elgin, Britain’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.