Sir Keir Starmer ruled out discussing a return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece in his meeting with his Greek counterpart on Tuesday despite claims from Athens that progress had been made on the issue.
Mr Mitsotakis had compared splitting the Elgin Marbles from those still in Athens to cutting the Mona Lisa in half. Greece has long maintained that the Elgin Marbles were illegally removed from ...
Returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece is not on the agenda for Sir Keir Starmer as he meets his Greek counterpart, Downing Street has said. The Prime Minister will welcome Kyriakos Mitsotakis to ...
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and now it appears he is set to cave in to the radical left and return the Elgin marbles to Greece. “The British Museum has cared for these precious artefacts for generations and given people ...
Standing alone in the corner of the British Museum in London is the caryatid – a statue of a female figure separated from five sisters for over 200 years. She is a long way from home, having ...
Standing alone in the corner of the British Museum in London is the caryatid – a statue of a female figure separated from five sisters for over 200 years. She is a long way from home, having been ...
British diplomat Lord Elgin was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece, in the early 19th century. He oversaw removal and shipping to the UK of the marbles in 170 crates and ...