a 50-year negotiation for bones that were already in the ground for 900.

Greece returns tsar's bones to Bulgaria, then points at Britain's Parthenon marbles

Greece and Bulgaria exchanged a treasury of relics on Saturday in Thessaloniki, a deal 50 years in the making. Athens handed over the bones of Tsar Samuel, Bulgaria's medieval warrior ruler, found in northern Greece over 60 years ago; Sofia returned 48 icons, crosses and ecclesiastical vessels looted from Greek churches during the first world war and housed at Bulgaria's National History Museum since. Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the accord proved 'political will' can settle repatriation rows, and pointed it directly at Britain's long refusal to return the Parthenon marbles, sawn off the Acropolis on Lord Elgin's orders and bought by the British Museum in 1816.

Source: Greece returns tsar's bones to Bulgaria, then points at Britain's Parthenon marbles — Guardian World

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