New search of Elgin’s sunken ship finds no marble

During July’s search Greek Culture Ministry divers did, however, recover 19th-century tableware, firearms, a cannonball and navigational instruments from the wreck of the Mentor, off the island of Kythera, the ministry said Monday.
The ship was loaded with marble art removed from the Acropolis on behalf of Thomas Bruce, the Scottish Earl of Elgin, before it sank in 1802.
Those works were soon salvaged and are now displayed with other Parthenon Marbles in London’s British Museum.
The three previous ship searches also turned up no more sculptures.
Greece has failed to get Britain to return the ones it has.