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Greece inaugurated its long-delayed Acropolis Museum on Saturday with the prime minister calling for the Classical Parthenon marbles, held in Britain for 200 years, to be repatriated....
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- News Source: News 24 | 5 months agoGreece inaugurated its long-delayed Acropolis Museum on Saturday with the prime minister calling for the Classical Parthenon marbles, held in Britain for 200 years, to be repatriated. The 2 500-year-old sculptures were removed from the Parthenon in...
- News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 5 months agoAP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Journalists walk amongst statues during a tour of the new Acropolis museum in Athens on Friday, June 19, 2009. Greece opens its long-anticipated new Acropolis Museum Saturday, boosting its decades-old campaign for the...
- News Source: Xinhuanet.com | 5 months agoThe galleries of the new Acropolis Museum that houses invaluable finds dating from the 4th Millennium BC to the 5th century AD found on the Sacred Hill of the Acropoliswere officially unveiled here on Saturday. Dimitros Pantermalis, director...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months agoAcropolis Museum unveiled in Greece Updated on 20 June 2009 Source PA News Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that...
- News Source: Novinite | 5 months agoCulture June 20, 2009, Saturday General view of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, under the temple of Parthenon. The opening ceremony for the long-awaited Acropolis Museum in Athens is to be held Saturday evening. The modern concrete and glass...
- News Source: Times Online | 5 months agoAcropolis museum for a forthright attack on Britain for failing to return the Elgin marbles. “For 200 years the Parthenon marbles have been amputated,” said Antonis Samaras, the culture minister, in advance of the opening. “Now they must be...
- News Source: Turkish Press | 5 months agoGreece ramped up the pressure on Britain to return priceless statues from antiquity taken over 200 years ago, in a speech at Saturday's grand opening of the new Acropolis Museum. President Carolos Papoulias reiterated his country's longstanding call...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 5 months agoThe most obvious absence was that of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who had been expected by the Greeks as one of the most politically significant visitors. Rayip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, made a last minute cancellation...
- News Source: SwissInfo | 5 months agoAthens is celebrating the opening of the new Acropolis museum, the culmination of many years' work by the internationally renowned Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi. Swiss culture minister Pascal Couchepin, who announced his forthcoming resignation...
- News Source: United Press International | 5 months agoThe New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, is the perfect place to showcase the Parthenon Marbles held by Britain, museum officials said at Saturday's opening. Designed by New York architect Bernard Tschumi, the $200 million museum replaces the old...
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