British troops in 1916, tried to steal in Greece and take in London's unique five-meter marble lion, which decorated the burial in Amphipolis, said Greek archaeologist Michalis Lefantzis.
Archaeologists presented Saturday at the Ministry of Culture of Greece the results of excavations in 2012-2014 on a hill castes in Amphipolis. Burial called the biggest archaeological discovery of the last decade funerary complex 158.4 meters in diameter surrounded by a marble wall length of 497 meters, in the burial found mosaics and sculptures of sphinxes and caryatids. On the hill stood a five-meter lion, which is reported to archaeologists, and tried to take the British military in 1916.
The British were preparing to remove to London about a thousand marble elements of fencing and disposal of a lion. On the day of shipment Bulgarian and Austrian troops attacked the British colony and as a result were ancient Greece, said Lefantzis, referring to historical research.
After the start of excavations in the Greek press has already appeared photos of British soldiers posing with skulls from ancient tombs in northern Greece during the First World War.
Greece for decades sought the return of the Parthenon Marbles UK, exported British envoy in Constantinople, Lord Elgin. Greece claims that the sculptures were illegally removed from the temple, and in fact stolen.
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