The Parthenon temple, shown at night. The A. Salinas Archaeological Museum in Sicily, Italy announced a four-year loan of a Parthenon frieze fragment to the Acropolis Museum in Athens, an act designed to nudge the British Museum and other European institutions to return their holdings of Parthenon marbles to Greece. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, taken by Athanasios Benisis in September 2004 and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
ROME (AP) – An Italian museum is lending a fragment of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, in what both sides hope will become a permanent return that might encourage others – the British Museum, in particular – to send their own pieces of the works back, too.
