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Helena Smith in Athens

Greece would offer major treasures to UK for Parthenon marbles, minister says

Parthenon marbles in the British Museum
Greece could organise rotating exhibitions of some of its most imortant artefacts to replace the Parthenon marbles, were they to be returned to Athens. Photograph: Steve Taylor/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

Greece is prepared to part with some of its greatest treasures to “fill the void” at the British Museum if the Parthenon marbles were reunited in Athens, the country’s culture minister has said.

Speaking to the Guardian at the end of a momentous year for the campaign to retrieve the fifth-century BC masterpieces, Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would never go empty.

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