A new Parthenon sculpture carved from the same Greek marble used on the originals 2,500 years ago will be unveiled in London on Tuesday as discussions about placing it in the British Museum begin.
The sculpture of a horse’s head, carved by robots from marble provided by Greece, is a replica of one of the dozens of sculptures held by the British Museum since Lord Elgin took them from the Parthenon in Athens in the early 19th century.
The Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology created the replica after surreptitiously scanning the originals in the British Museum – to the later anger of the institution – using Lidar cameras to produce measurements accurate to a fraction of a millimetre.
A robot with diamond rotary cutters took
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