A visitor takes photograph of Elgin marbles also known as the Parthenon marbles, at the British Museum, London following a diplomatic row between UK and Greece. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, cancelled a planned wide-ranging meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over a diplomatic row the Parthenon marbles. The marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Acropolis in Athens and were removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin and then-British ambassado
A visitor takes photograph of Elgin marbles also known as the Parthenon marbles, at the British Museum, London following a diplomatic row between UK and Greece. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, cancelled a planned wide-ranging meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over a diplomatic row the Parthenon marbles. The marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Acropolis in Athens and were removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin and then-British ambassador to the Ottoman empire. Greece has requested that they would like to see the sculptures returned to Greece.
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