The sad thing is that many of these were blatantly stolen by the Brits - equally sadly, many of them would not have survived otherwise. Much of the damage to the Parthenon, as we know it, is because someone had the bright idea of using it as an ammunition dump.

Surely, if the word "timeless" can be applied to anything, this is it. I know I cannot look at the world without, in some measure, seeing it in these terms.