The replicas that could end the Elgin Marbles row

Visitors pose in front of the British Museum's Elgin Marbles that originate from the Parthenon in Athens. Getty

Simon de Bruxelles

Dec 12, 2024 – 5.00am

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Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an avaricious British aristocrat and relocated to the British Museum, where they have languished more than 3000 kilometres from home for the past 200 years.

Now, a new and possibly final chapter is about to be added to the long-running dispute over the ownership of one of the ancient world’s most contested treasures.

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