The British Museum and the Acropolis Museum in Athens closed the deal under it Britain will return to Greece several pieces of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens as part of a cultural exchange, reported the Bloomberg agency, citing people familiar with the matter.

Sources indicate that museum of london to accept loan of other objects and a plaster copy of the Parthenon statue. Similarly, they detailed that the logistics for transporting the work would be very complicated, reports RTenespañol.

“We have advocated for a deal that benefits Greece and the UK, centered on a cultural partnership between the two countries,” said a spokesman for the Parthenon Project, an organization chaired by Ed Vaizey, the UK’s former culture minister.

In this case, he emphasized it the move will allow the British Museum to remain a “museum of the world” displaying outstanding works of Greek art as part of a rotating exhibition, with the Parthenon statues collected in Athens, their “legal home”.

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If a consensus is reached between the two parties, the disputes that have hampered Anglo-Greek relations since the founding of modern Greece in 1832 will be resolved. In recent decades, the Greek government have intensified their calls for London to put the pieces back, in what has become a long political and diplomatic dispute.

The deal could be similar to one reached last year, which allowed Athens to recover 161 ancient works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York, the sources said. The deal will make marble works collected by an American billionaire are gradually returning to Greece after being exhibited at the Met alongside other works traveling in opposite directions, in a long process that will span between 2023 and 2048.

The Elgin Marbles are a collection of ancient artifacts that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, removed from the ruins of the Acropolis in Athens in the early 19th century under controversial circumstances and then transferred to Great Britain.