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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greece has long maintained that the Elgin Marbles were illegally removed from their place high atop Athens’ acropolis during a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The signatories reportedly call for an immediate halt to any negotiations over the future of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as ...

In 1801 a British nobleman stripped the Parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to England. Controversy over their ...

Greece on Friday blasted the British Museum’s unprecedented loan of one of the Elgin Marbles — Greek sculptures also known as the Parthenon Marbles that Athens wants returned to Greece — to a Russian ...

The future of the Elgin Marbles is in the hands of the British Museum, Downing Street has said, amid reports a deal that could see the sculptures returned to Greece is progressing. No mention was made ...

Sir Keir Starmer ruled out discussing a return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece in his meeting with his Greek counterpart on Tuesday despite claims from Athens that progress had been made on the issue.

A bitter new row over ownership of the Elgin marbles has erupted, threatening to eclipse the inauguration this week of a major new museum in Athens designed to house the contested masterpieces. Just ...

Athens reacted furiously after it was revealed that the British Museum had loaned one of the Elgin Marbles to Russia. Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, called the move a “provocation” to his ...

King Charles has worn a tie emblazoned with the Greek flag, just days after the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled a meeting with his Greek counterpart in a diplomatic dispute over the ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's president called on Monday for Britain to free the Parthenon marbles from the "murky prison" of its national museum, upping the rhetoric in a near 200-year-old campaign for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an archaeologist, I have devoted many years of study to Greece and ancient Greek culture I am a classical archaeologist who has ...