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.
