Elgin Marbles

Their father, the 7th Earl of Elgin, was famous for his theft of the "Elgin Marbles" from Greece, smuggling them to the British Museum. 

Like the Hellenistic list makers, we are still subsuming the cultural landscapes of others into our world, but now through the power of tourism. Taj Mahal and the Great Wall become part of our own cultural landscape, in the same way that archaeological museum displays have captured others landscapes the Elgin marbles and Cleopatra s Needle were located into the cultural landscape of London, not the Mediterranean (having been previously disassociated from their original locations by the Ottoman Empire). The landscape role of features such as these derives from the individual personal experiences of tourists, rather than from external political actors. 

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