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They were removed by British aristocrat Lord Elgin over 200 years ago, while Athens was part of the Ottoman Empire.

They were removed by British aristocrat Lord Elgin while Athens was part of the Ottoman Empire and were badly damaged en route to London, where they have been displayed since.

In early modern England and France, revolutions did lead to ideological change, Goldstone found, while elsewhere — most notably in China and the Ottoman Empire — they did not.

One tells the story of how a fabled ship carrying a life-saving cargo of food heads to port during a terrible famine that swept the Levant in the dying days of Ottoman rule.

The attack, which also destroyed a centuries-old Ottoman building, highlighted what some archaeologists say is the risk of irreparable damage to historical sites across Lebanon from the current war between Israel and Hezbollah.