Nice Sculptures We Got At The Museum

If you ever take a trip to the British Museum, you might notice that a lot of the stuff on display that hasn’t got much to do with Britain but over the years, Britain has managed to acquire a lot of items and although the proper home of the treasures ask for them back, they are still here so what have we got here that should really be there?
Probably the most famous are the Elgin Marbles which from around the 5th Century BC adorned The Parthenon as a tribute to the gods and goddesses of Greece but since 1805 they have been displayed more as a tribute to Lord Elgin nicking them off the Greeks.
The Rosetta Stone made its way from Egypt to Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG via Napoleon who took a break from trying to take over the World to pilfer them only for them to be pilfered off him in return by the Brits when they defeated him at Waterloo and rather than hand them back to the Egyptians.
The Amaravati Stupa Marbles stood proudly in India as a shrine to Buddha but in 1840 British colonisers dismantled it and took it back to Blighty as a shrine to our light fingers but at least we only took one of them, the poor people of Benin woke up in 1897 to discover a gap where 200 bronze sculptures had been standing since 1200 but now stand in the British Museum but as we are a much kinder and less kleptomaniac nation now, we do occasionally lend them back to the Nigerian Museum with a stern: 'Oi, don't get any ideas, we want them back' note attached.
When the Brits landed in New Zealand in the late 1700s, they saw the preserved Maori Heads which were an important cultural symbol of the indigenous people of New Zealand and so shipped them back to the British Museum for that important cultural symbol of £'s and although Britain has its fair share of people with swollen heads but not so many on Easter Island because in 1868 members of the British Royal Navy took two of the heads back home where they have remained to this day.
The Taino were the first people to inhabit Jamaica and they did create some lovely wooden figures which were so lovely that in 1799 the Brits decided rather be displayed in the original country, they would look much better on a Museum shelf in rainswept England alongside the artwork, vases and sculptures pinched from the Chinese Summer Palace when it was looted by the British in 1860 who then went on to burn the Palace to the ground for good measure. 
In 1896 the Sudanese were not particularly keen to become a British colony so the Brits said fair enough and walked away...sorry, they brutally massacred them and took the armor, weapons, skulls, and even the military banners as trophies and displayed them in the British Museum.
All the above items remain on display at the British Museum but if you haven't visited them yet then no rush because they are not going anywhere.