Greece welcomes back sculpture fragments from Parthenon

A head is placed on the frieze at the Acropolis museum (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Greece on Friday welcomed the return of ancient artefacts from the Acropolis, furthering a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures removed from the ancient site in Athens more than 200 years ago.

Culture minister Lina Mendoni led a ceremony for the repatriation of three sculpture fragments, representing a horse and two male heads, from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis, which had been kept at the Vatican Museums.