The 19th century held for Athens dramatic events. In 1800 as ambassador of England the Lord Elgin (1766-1841) was installed in Istamboul (Lord Elgin and Kinkardine). Invoking the destructions of ancient monuments and offering the excuse of their protection, he violently removed departments of the decoration of the temples of the Acropolis rock, between those pediments of Parthenon, was one of the Caryatids. The slavery of Elgin continued the same period that archaelogists and thieves of ancient objects visited Greece.