In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell’s The Removal of the Sculptures ...
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 ...
Excavations at the site of the 1802 Mentor shipwreck uncovered a marble fragment that may have ties to the Parthenon in ...
Greece has repeatedly called for the permanent return from the British Museum of the 2,500-year-old sculptures, which British ...
ATHENS - A marble fragment of the Parthenon temple will be permanently returned to Athens from a museum in Italy, a ...
The hour-long documentary explores the complex history and controversy surrounding the so-called Elgin Marbles - sculptures ...
A tale of ambition, adultery, shipwreck, war and corruption: If you thought the history of the ‘Elgin marbles’ was just about ...
Britain's proposal to charge tourists museum entry fees faces backlash from restitution groups amid ongoing debates over ...
Almost as soon as the Marbles touched the shores of England, they ignited controversy, and the subject of their fate remains a bitterly divisive one. To some, Elgin was a cultural hero, preserving the ...
Archaeologists have discovered a piece of marble treasure among the remains of a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Kythira, which could be tied to an infamous robbery at the Parthenon, ...