New director of the Acropolis Museum calls for Parthenon marbles to be returned to Greece

Sections of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum

(Picture: PA Archive)

The new director of a museum in Athens has urged for the Parthenon marbles to be returned to Greece.

Workers stripped friezes from the temple in the early 1800s on the authority of Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, who then sold to the British government.