‘Product of theft’: Greece urges UK to return Parthenon marbles
The New Acropolis Museum wants to display antiquities removed on the orders of Lord Elgin
The New Acropolis Museum was purpose-built to host the one thing every Greek government will always agree on: the Parthenon marbles being returned from London.
On Saturday, as the four-storey edifice marked its 11th anniversary, Athens reinvigorated the cultural row calling the British Museum’s retention of the antiquities illegal and “contrary to any moral principle”.
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