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The findings come amid reports that the British Museum has moved closer to a landmark deal with Athens that could see the artefacts returned

The museum's chairman - former Tory austerity Chancellor George Osborne - has been engaged in negotiations over a possible deal with the Greek authorities for the 2,500-year-old cultural treasures

Rishi Sunak caught up in diplomatic row with Greece over the potential return of the artefacts

The sculptures have been the subject of controversy over where they should be displayed.

Current laws prevent British museums from legally giving away items considered national treasures.

There's been a lot of conversation about the return of these artefacts

George Powell and Layton Davies were jailed for more than 18 years after failing to report their find and handing over just three ‘valueless’ coins out of a 1,100-year-old collection from the reign of King Alfred

Analysis of over 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites revealed that pottery-making methods spread great distances in a short amount of time due to social customs being passed down. Read on for details:

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s onwards, many of…

Germany ‘played a dark role’ in colonialism, the Foreign Minister said

Artefacts looted in 19th century by UK soldiers and sold on, with many more still held by the British Museum