File picture shows the Elgin Marbles on display at the British Museum in London

The Elgin Marbles are seen on display at the British Museum in London, in this file picture taken June 5, 2000. Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, fresh from her marriage to Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney in September 2014, is heading to Athens to advise the Greek government in its battle to repatriate the ancient Elgin Marbles statues from Britain. The Marbles are a set of ancient Greek sculptures taken to London after being removed from the Acropolis in Athens by a British aristocrat, Lord Elgin, while Athens was under Ottoman control in the 19th Century. Greece has sought their return from the British Museum for decades, to no avail. REUTERS/Ian Waldie/Files (BRITAIN – Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT)