Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, who has said the Parthenon Marbles kept in the British Museum for 200 years were stolen, said Greece nonetheless is willing to lend the institution valuable artifacts to have the marbles returned. Speaking to the British newspaper The Guardian Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would never go empty. The newspaper said a coveted item is especially Agamemnon’s Mask, the gold funerary masks historians call the “Mona Lisa of prehistory” that could be sent to the British museum as a crowd-attracter. Asked if Greece had ruled out taking legal action against the British Museum, Mendoni said the government would continue “to make full use of the possibilities offered by dialogue and cultural diplomacy”. “Even people who for years have opposed the return of the sculptures to Greece now support our demand,” she said.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2024 08:24 UTC