The British Museum is facing legal action from a heritage preservation organization over its alleged refusal to allow the 3D scanning of a Parthenon piece in the museum's collection, reports The Guardian. UK-based Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) said it is planning to serve an injunction against the museum, in order to reproduce a high relief metope from the south facade of the main temple on the Acropolis in Athens. The museum previously denied the request in an email, .
UK's Institute for Digital Archaeology is planning to take the British Museum to court over its refusal to allow a 3D reproduction of the Parthenon marbles
Digital archaeologists' have secretly scanned the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Marbles inside the British Museum with the hope of creating 'perfect' replicas