Acropolis Museum director, Nikos Stampolidis, called for an end to the division of the sculptures from the Parthenon. Greece requests have been on going since the the 19th century and after independence. The Acropolis Museum is the closest that all visitors can get to the Parthenon and this peerless collection of sculptures.

"It's time for the matter to be resolved," Nikos Stampolidis told AFP in an interview.

"We are not talking about just any work of art far from its place of origin", but of "part of an architectural monument that is a symbol of global culture", stated Stampolidis.

"An act of the English parliament could facilitate the return the friezes to Athens," Stampolidis added.

You can watch the ERT news interview on You Tube, with English subtitles.

The Acropolis Museum is "the one place on earth where you can properly admire the marbles in context, as you stand in front of 2,500 years of history and look across the panoramic vista towards the temple above," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in the Daily Mail in November.

In January, the Times, also wrote: "Time and circumstances are changing. The sculptures belong in Athens. They must now return there."