Greece and Turkey argue that Lord Elgin had no firman permissing him to remove the artifacts, while the UK claims Elgin had all necessary documents and brought the Statues to Britian legally.

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Arguably the world’s most famous Greek temple, the ...

At UNESCO, multiple countries back Greece over the Parthenon Sculptures, including Turkey who challenges the legality of ...

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 ...

There exists within the modern Greek relationship with antiquity a peculiar and persistent irony. Few nations invoke with greater frequency the vocabulary of civilisation, and fewer still derive such ...

An academic has been barred from a leading Greek museum for backing Britain in the Elgin Marbles debate. Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta, an archaeologist, was scheduled to make an after-dinner ...

The Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO has issued a formal call to intensify efforts for the reunification of the ...

News dashes Greek officials’ hopes that the renovation could see Parthenon artworks returned to Athens Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues affecting British ...

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 ...