KOYO KOUOH LANDS VENICE BIENNALE TOP JOB. Koyo Kouoh, the 57-year-old Cameroonian Swiss museum director, has been appointed ...
It doesn’t take much nous to see what’s going on with the Elgin Marbles. After the PM’s affectionate chat with the Greek ...
Mr Mitsotakis had compared splitting the Elgin Marbles from those still in Athens to cutting the Mona Lisa in half. Greece has long maintained that the Elgin Marbles were illegally removed ...
Standing alone in the corner of the British Museum in London is the caryatid – a statue of a female figure separated from five sisters for over 200 years. She is a long way from home, having been ...
Recommended Letters: The Elgin Marbles belong in Britain – they ... We feel that these sculptures belong to Greece and that they were essentially stolen. But this is not, in my mind, an ...
British diplomat Lord Elgin was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece, in the early 19th century. He oversaw removal and shipping to the UK of the marbles in 170 crates ...
The story of the Elgin Marbles' removal begins in the early 19th century with Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, ...
Jess Phillips dismissed a question on the fate of the Elgin Marbles as Sir Keir Starmer was set to meet his Greek counterpart ...