The unforgettable Melina Mercouri had said: “I hope, before I die to see the marbles of the Parthenon in Greece. But if they return after I die, I will reborn”.
In 1927 John Gennadius reset in the authorities of the British Museum, the issue of the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece. In the reply he received, inter alia,
On 15th April 1802, Mary Elgin , wife of Lord Elgin, writes in her diary that a Greek worker confessed to her that as they were removing the statues from
35 years after my first visit to the Acropolis, the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) trusted our family business with the sculpting of nine drums and the creation of two triglyphs
