KOYO KOUOH LANDS VENICE BIENNALE TOP JOB. Koyo Kouoh, the 57-year-old Cameroonian Swiss museum director, has been appointed ...
The row could be raised by the Greek prime minister when he meets Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday.
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 ...
Greece has long maintained that the Elgin Marbles were illegally removed from their place high atop Athens’ acropolis during a period of foreign occupation, and has called for their return.
Greece has claimed progress has been made in negotiations to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens ahead of a crunch meeting its Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Sir Keir Starmer at Downing ...
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 ...
and now it appears he is set to cave in to the radical left and return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. 'The British Museum has cared for these precious artefacts for generations and given people ...
The story of the Elgin Marbles' removal begins in the early 19th century with Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, ...