LONDON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- One of the Elgin Marbles, ancient sculptures in the British Museum whose return has been demanded by Greece, has been lent to a Russian museum.
A headless sculpture of the god Ilissos has been loaned to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum to display for several weeks. It is the first time any of the 2,500-year old marble sculptures, taken from Greece in the early 1800s by the Earl of Elgin to Britain, have left Britain.