Museums

The British Museum is not the legal owner of the Parthenon Marbles and therefore the long-running dispute with Greece over their fate could only be resolved with their unconditional repatriation and not with a lending plan, the director of the Acropolis Museum, Dimitrios Pandermalis, reportedly told German public radio on Wednesday.

A man in the Peloponnesian region of Laconia faces charges of antiquities theft and smuggling after reportedly being caught in the process of conducting a 600,000-euro sale of stolen artifacts last week, the Greek police (ELAS) announced on Tuesday.