Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an avaricious British aristocrat and relocated to the British Museum, where they ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1801, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, took the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) ...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s last-minute cancellation of a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London has brought renewed attention to the centuries-old dispute over the ...
As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return in today’s City AM Debate The Parthenon Sculptures (AKA ...
With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament (MPs) are introducing a bill that ...
As Western nations increasingly move to restitute looted cultural artifacts to their countries of origin, pressure is intensifying for London’s British Museum to return Greece’s famed Parthenon ...
Two of my major obsessions—punctuation and Greek—came together recently, when President Xi Jinping, of China, voiced his support for the return to Greece of the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the ...
After Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the British Museum to return the Parthenon marbles, his British counterpart abruptly called off their meeting. By Alex Marshall, Mark Landler and Niki Kitsantonis ...