Lord Elgin removed Parthenon sculptures around 1800.

Evidence

Around 1800, Lord Elgin, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 453

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 453