"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient friezes could be on their way back to Athens after more than two centuries.
Britain's Attorney General said Britain could reclaim the Ionian Islands from Greece if Athens wants the return of the ...
UK law prevents the British Museum from permanently returning the sculptures to Greece. Talks are reportedly underway about a ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
A YouGov poll indicates that over half of Britons (53 percent) support the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship. The Byzantines converted the ...
“The Parthenon means so much to so many people, both in Greece and in the rest of the world,” he says. “I don’t see it as my task to dictate what others should believe, but rather to offer ...
Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...