With eye on British Museum, Greece welcomes back ancient art -
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni led a ceremony Friday for the repatriation of three sculpture fragments - representing a horse and two male heads - from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis which had been kept at the Vatican Museums.
“Initiatives like these show the way, how the pieces of the Parthenon can be reunited, healing the wounds caused by barbaric hands so many years ago,” Mendoni said. “This takes us to the just and moral demand of the entire Greek people, and of this government and its prime minister, for the final return of all the sculptures of the Parthenon.”
The fragments will be added to the collection at the Acropolis Museum, which opened in 2009 at the foot of the ancient site in the center of
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