The British Museum and the Marbles – not a good look

The British Museum’s reported refusal to grant a request by the Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) to allow a 3D reproduction of a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles is a puzzle. See here .

We don’t know the answer, but what we do know is that it’s not a good look, given the controversy surrounding the treasures and particularly given the Museum’s instruction to metal detectorists that keeping and not sharing both objects and scientific knowledge is wrong.