In the early nineteenth century, the friezes and sculptures were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, Britain’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803. Elgin sold them to the British government, which put them in the British Museum.
十九世纪初，1799至1803年任英国驻奥斯曼帝国大使的埃尔金勋爵将雕像和饰物搬出了帕台农神庙。埃尔金把雕像出售给英国政府，英国政府将这些文物放在大英博物馆展出。现在希腊想要回这些文物。