To the recent allegations of the British Museum for Sculptures of the Parthenon Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni mentioned, speaking to Parapolitical FM.
According to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Mendoni described the British Museum’s claims that the Sculptures were in ruins as unhistorical of the Parthenon, from where Elgin retrieved them.
«These are untold stories. There is indisputable archaeological evidence. The metopes were sawn. That is, after the embossed surface was cut, the rest of the body was left behind and thrown away, at the time when all these vandalisms took place at the monument.“, He pointed out.
He added that the sawn slabs are on the Acropolis. «These are funny things. These are ridiculous claims and can not stand. For many years the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Greek government and the scientific community have given clear answers“, Said the minister, who reiterated our permanent position, that is Greece does not accept prefecture, occupation and ownership of the British Museum or the United Kingdom, precisely because of the conditions that stole the Sculptures. He also reminded that “The only antiquities that Greece claims are the Sculptures of the Parthenon, because on the one hand they were stolen in the way they were stolen and on the other hand because they are an organic and integral unit with the Parthenon itself, which is the symbol of Western Civilization. Greece is not claiming anything else. It is clear. It claims only the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures“, He stressed.
Finally, the minister described “good practice» the Agreement between the Greek Government and the Autonomous Government of Sicily and the consent of the Italian Republic to Fagan fragmentwhile reiterating that Greece is ready to enter into a bona fide and honest dialogue with the United Kingdom.
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