Greece accused of 'cultural theft' over Australian video He said that after contacting them about the footage, which he shot in 2010, the authority agreed to pay him for its use. The Greek tourism authority attempted to justify the use of the images by saying that the night-time footage of the Twelve Apostles featured southern hemisphere constellations, which are named after Greek gods and heroes. Almost all the over the world, wherever you turn, you will meet an idea, a name, that originated from Greece. Even in the skies of Australia in the southern hemisphere, when lifting your eyes upward, you will see stars and constellations that carry Greek names," the tourism board said in a statement. The mythology of the sky at all latitudes and longitudes of the Earth is Greek. Mr Cherney said that was a farcical argument and that the tourism authority could have chosen from any number of stunning stretches of the Greek coast rather than using a clip from the other side of the world. "That's fine to make a mistake, but coming up with an excuse or an explanation like that is funny," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Greek government has enlisted the help of a team of British lawyers, including Amal Clooney, the new wife of George Clooney, to help press its claim to the marbles, which were shipped to Britain in the early 1800s by Lord Elgin, the then ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Mrs Clooney, a London-based human rights lawyer who married the Hollywood actor in Venice in September, last month paid a visit to Athens to see for herself the Parthenon and the nearby Acropolis Museum, where spaces are reserved for the friezes currently owned by the British Museum.